Thursday, 20. February 2003

Glow-in-dark bug strikes


A BACTERIA which glows in the dark and shares genes with the bubonic plague has caused a series of unexplained infections along Australia's east coast.

The photorhabdus bacteria, first identified in an 11-year-old Melbourne girl in 1994, causes excruciatingly painful ulcers and abscesses.

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