wombat
that is SO cool:) I wonder what set of circumstances causes the somatid to change to the virulent form?
here's something, funny in this case that the presence of lead, mercury or aluminum can be beneficial. egads are trace amounts of those vital?:
http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/naessens.htm#b
In the blood of healthy persons, we observe somatids, spores, and double spores. In the course of this microcycle, we can detect the production of a trephone. This is a proliferative hormone indispensable to cellular division. Without it, life does not exist. In healthy individuals, the evolution of this cycle is stopped at the level of the double spore because of the presence of trephone inhibitors in the blood. These are either mineral substances, such as copper, mercury, aluminum, and lead, or organic substances, such as cyanhydric acid, etc. In the course of this microcycle, the quantity of trephones necessary for cellular multiplication is thus elaborated. If, because of stress or some biological disturbances, the inhibitors in the blood diminish in concentration, the somatid cycle continues its natural evolution and one sees the appearance of diverse forms of bacteria. These have also been termed by German scientists during the 1930s syphonospora polymorpha.
BTW, link to order 714x on that page as well. Canadians not allowed....