The bacteria worked to break down toxic molecules into safe and simple carbon groups-food for less exotic microbes serving as natural decomposers within the soil.

Seen through the prism of epidemiology, the city is less a melting pot than a petri dish, a place where continents' worth of exotic microbes stroll casually through customs at Kennedy Airport every morning.

United States and Canadian health officials said yesterday that they were mystified by the outbreak an intestinal infection caused by an exotic microbe.

Federal officials are developing a crash program to test food and other items for an exotic microbe that is known or suspected to have made more than 1,000 people sick in 11 states.

Infection Mystifies Officials United States and Canadian officials said that they were mystified by the outbreak of an infection caused by an exotic microbe.

Valuable ores and exotic microbes have recently been discovered on volcanic rifts in the ocean and are being harvested to aid the biotechnology revolution.

New York City's investigation of an outbreak of an intestinal ailment caused by an exotic microbe has created an extraordinary conflict between the Health Department and a leading scientist over reporting cases of the ailment, cyclospora.

Dr. Jannasch was honored in 1996 when one of these exotic microbes was named after him.

Profits are already accruing from the exotic microbes that dwell in and around the rocky monoliths.

Miranda had gone down to the river that looped around the camp and discovered several dozen exotic microbes in the water.