"Mycococcus" of the ascomycete mold and carcinogenesis.
There is a time in history when it becomes necessary to coin a term to describe a newly discovered identity. According to our research findings there is now the need to add a new term to medical microbiology. Our studies indicate that there is consistently present, determined though revised culturing procedures of aseptic freshly collected cancerous tissue, a micro-organism which resembles and/or is identified as staphylococci, micrococci, enterococci, etc. Our work indicates that these microbes are the absent outside cell wall, enzyme and hormone-deficient aberrant form of the ascomycete mold. They could be listed as the asexual conidial bodies. However, because they multiply in cancerous tissue, as a separate entity, with absolutely no evidences of phialedes or hyphal elements being present, and because they are predominantly cocci in appearance, I wish to suggest that we use the term "mycococcus". On occasions some cultures will reveal microbes which give an alternating rod to oval-like movement and appearance. Sometimes the rods may be small and chain-like. These ultimately turn out to be the altered microbes such as aspergillus of the branching type fungus. The term in this instance may be considered as "mycomicrobe" or "mycobacillus".
D001203:Ascomycota / Q000201:enzymology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000502:physiology; D003470:Culture Media; D005658:Fungi / Q000145:classification; D006099:Granuloma / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
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