title: Is this the historical 'cancer germ'?
abstract: A highly pleomorphic bacterium, isolated from a canine mammary tumour was found to share many characteristics with recently described cancer-related bacteria and with the Glover organism, a historically important 'cancer germ'. We suggest that both the Glover organism, and possibly other cancer-related bacteria, are likely to be a strain of the highly pleomorphic bacterium, Bacillus licheniformis.
authors.affiliation: University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. m.wainwright@sheffield.ac.uk
authors.forename: Milton
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wainwright
authors.forename: Abdullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al Talih
mesh_terms: D001407:Bacillus / Q000378:metabolism / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000382:microbiology*