Nanobacteria and associated ‘elementary bodies’ in human disease and cancer

Abstract

Microbiology Comment provides a platform for readers of Microbiology to communicate their personal observations and opinions in a more informal way than through the submission of papers.

Nanobacteria: Facts or Fancies?

“…The prion scrapie protein is filterable and it will propagate in the presence of the normal prion protein, but not by binary scission, as bacteria do. At any rate, the filterability of microorganisms is a long-lasting and unsettled argument [37]. …”

Nanostructure of palygorskite/sepiolite in Texas caliche: Possible bacterial origin

“…8 of Kawano and Tomita 2002). The apparently reproductive entities known as "elementary particles" or "corpuscles" within pleomorphic L-forms of bacteria (Dienes 1968;Domingue and Woody 1997;Wainwright 1999) and glycogen particles are also in the same size range; and blebbing of bacterial cell walls (Knickerbocker et al 2000) and small spheroids produced under stress by bacteria (Vainshtein and Kudryashova 2000) are also similar. Furthermore, proteins reacted upon by bacterial enzymes can produce fields of objects resembling nannobacteria (Schieber and Arnott 2003).…”

“…Problems with "smallness of life" definitions have been recently discussed by Wainwright (1999), Vainshtein and Kudryashova (2000) Carbonates and Evaporites, v. 22, no. 2, 2007, p. 113-122. and Gibson et aI., (2001).…”

Who’s a Quack?

“…But the current beliefs about what these biological active filterable forms were, and what their relation was to the larger forms the filters did capture was not yet entirely settled at the time Rife was mostly at work (see Wainwright 1999Wainwright , 2623. Wainwright refers to late twentieth century pleomorphism as "heretical"-a deliberate use of the term-but before the 1940s the monomorphist orthodoxy had not been fully established.…”

“…Ultra filterable forms are forms which passed through filters which captured bacteria and which were later categorised as viruses (Wainwright 1999(Wainwright , 2623. The fact that there was something biologically active (and sometimes malevolent) in the filtrate of bacteria had been known since the late 1890s (cf.…”