Bacillus

Okay.

And then for motility, that could refer to bacillus cereus.

And then for also the Clostridia, Bacillus, fuck my saying.

For the Clostridia would be C. difficile, tetany, and botulinum.

Okay, so Clostridium perfringens is immotile, and Bacillus anthracis, immotile.

Regardless, wrong fucking answer.

These studies used different branded strains as opposed to just kind of generic strains of these probiotics.

But let's start with one of the big guys, Bacillus subtilis.

In 2015, a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study in France gave 100 healthy senior citizens, 60 to 74 years old, all with a history of getting sick in the winter, a strain of bacillus subtilis, in on and off courses over four months of cold and flu season.

In the group they tested biologically, secretory AIGA went up significantly in both their stool and their saliva compared to the placebo group.

And when symptoms did show up, things like hoarseness, headache, and fatigue, they didn't last as long.

The researchers tied those results to measurable changes in immune signaling proteins specifically in their blood.

Then Bacillus clausii.

In 2007, researchers at the University of Pavia in Italy gave Bacillus clausus spores for three months to children who kept getting respiratory infections over and over.

Oh,

is it Bacillus thuringiensis that's eating the eggs?

yeah i think i uh yeah something like that yeah that's mixed with the boron but there's also a whole bunch of um bacteria that in the compost products that i make are also doing the same thing is is they're they're consuming the ant eggs because they don't have like there probably are some chitin degraders in in the material as well but i've noticed that when i'm applying that extract It's not just the ants coming out.

It's the ants with the eggs.

Biologicals and new entrants pressed into crop protection this week.

Koppert launched Maycan in Brazil, a Bacillus velezensis foliar fungicide for soybean, corn, and sugarcane registered for thirteen disease targets.

Lubrizol entered crop care with its Xyra formulation range.

On the data side, Proba released N-Tree in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

We talked about it's not who's there, it's what function do they provide.

And so it's a matter of getting organisms that will liberate micronutrients like magnesium and zinc and iron and those things that the plant needs.

You have free-living microbes that will fix nitrogen, azotobacter, agrobacteria.

We all know about rhizobium and its interaction with legume crops.

But if you leave out, especially if you leave out the French horns, but also the violins, it's just not going to be the same thing.

Nobody's going to perform as well.

And so I think what happens with those organisms that we have found work well as microbial soil amendments is, are acting to improve everybody around them.

They're acting to a certain extent as quorum sensors that will actually cause that whole ecosystem now to bloom a little bit more prolifically and get everybody involved in creating that functionality you want to create the optimal environment for that crop to grow.

It is a profound risk that most people are entirely unaware of.

Uncooked rice frequently harbors spores of a bacterium called Bacillus cirrus.

Okay.

These endospores act like tiny biological bunkers.

... and, uh, multiply massively and let mosquitoes all over your garden.

Bacillus.

But I would say, yes, there are-

I just wanted to see if it was as fun to say as it is to listen to you say it.

Nice

... um, than, than trying to, uh-

Bacillus.

[laughs]

Yep.

If it's not meat, I think you could make a case for Bacillus cereus.

Agreed.

And so the microwaving part of this, of getting it to 165.

He got it up to 190, 195.

I still don't think that that's gonna be enough to denature the heat-stable toxins if they were present.

No, but Bacillus, Bacillus toxin is famously very heat stable.

Yeah.

It was in the year 1889 that Professor Loeffler, while experimenting with mice in his laboratory at Griefswald, discovered a microorganism which was extremely fatal to all kinds of mice.

The happy idea occurred to the professor that this lethal little microbe, which he christened Bacillus typhi murium, might be turned to excellent account in combating plagues of field mice in grain fields, where the devastation committed by these voracious rodents had become in parts of Greece and Russia a serious source of loss to agriculturists.

Experiments were accordingly made on a small scale to test the efficiency of this bacterial poisoner in destroying field mice, and so successful were the results that Loeffler confidently announced the possibility of keeping down these pests by distributing food material infected with these bacteria over the fields which were invaded by them.

The Greek government took up the question, and Loeffler's method was applied with brilliant results.

In each of these instances, the milk secured with greater care remained sweet over twenty-four hours longer than the ordinary milk.

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An organism which has exceptional opportunities for finding its way into cow's milk is the Bacillus coli communis, normally present in the feces of all animals.

This microbe is a very undesirable adjunct to milk, and may greatly interfere with the souring process by multiplying extensively, and so producing a change in the milk which renders it impossible for the particular souring bacteria to carry on their work, resulting in their collapse and ultimate extinction.