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spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore

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 fusiform bacteria, the shape being due to a central spore.

A genus of microbes.

An anaerobic, spore-forming bacillus, found in earth of plants which fixes the nitrogen for the plants.