spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore
A genus of motile or nonmotile gram-positive bacteria of the family BACILLACEAE. Many species have been identified with some being pathogenic. They occur in water, soil, and in the intestinal tract of humans and lower animals.
A genus of microbes.
An anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus, found in earth of plants which fixes the nitrogen for the plants.