Table 5. Morgellons Phase I study - Primary Organisms Of Interest.
	Habitat	Cell Wall	Motility	Growth Habit	Pigments	UV Pigments	Nutrient Requirements	Ecology	Human Health	Other
BACTERIA (unicellular prokaryotic)
	Slime-Producing Bacteria
Gliding Bacteria	Terrest/Aquatic	Peptidoglycan	+	ensheathed	orange, red	yellow	chitin, cellulose,	parasitic on	peridontal	musty odor,
Myxobacteria			dry	colonial	yellow, pink,		starch, agar	fish & algae	disorders,	protruberances
Cytophagales			surfaces	filaments	greenish,			dead algae,	biofilm ass.	noted to be
Herpetosiphon			"crawling"		violet, brn			sewage,	diseases	fibrous
Cyanobacteria	Terrestrial	Peptidoglycan	+ or -	sheathed	green, yell,	blue	sunlight and	Symbiants of	swimmers	"algal"
(blue-green algae)	(also in aerial dust)			filaments	blue, red,		minerals	protists, fungi,	itch, many	bloom toxins
				or unicellular	pink			plants	toxins	in soil &
										water
Nitrogen Fixing	Terrestrial	Peptidoglycan	+ or -	unicellular,	pink	yellow,	mono- and di-	tumers on	opportunist	soil pore
	(also in aerial dust)			some with micro-		green, pink,	sachharides	plants, root	nosocimial	water, root
				fibrils		violet	(simple sugars)	symbiants	pathogen	zone
	Filamentous, spore-producing bacteria
Actinomycetes	Terrest/Aquatic	Peptidoglycan	+ or -	ensheathed	many	many	chitin, keratin,	parasitic to	many	musty odor,
	(also in aerial dust)			colonial			cellulose,	plants, algae	dermal and	calm water,
				filaments (hyphae)			lignin	mats	systemic	antibiotics
PROTISTA (unicellular eukaryotic)
Slime Molds	Terrestrial	Cellulose	+	plasma slime/	yellow, red,	?	chitin, cellulose	parasitic on	?	calm water
Plasmodial	(also in aerial dust)		"creeping"	stalked fruiting	orange, wh,			bacteria, soils,
				bodies	pink, purp,			decaying organic
					green			matter
Water Molds	Aquatic	Cellulose	+	colonial filaments,	brown,	?	chitin, cellulose	parasitc on	?	calm water,
Oomycetes				hyphae (aseptate)	golden			plants, inverts,		virus vector,
				"cobweb-like"				verts, and algae		nematodes
Algae	Aquatic	Cellulose	+ or -	colonial	red, green,	red	sunlight and	shallow warm,	opportunist	algal bloom
	(also in aerial dust)			filaments or	brown		minerals	calm water, soil	pathogen,	toxins in soil