This is a well-known phenomenon in certain bacteria, yeasts, and other microbes. Such changeability in microbes is rarely welcomed by doctors.
Some pleomorphism is relatively simple.
Then it turns nasty, throwing out mold-like growths. But despite their similarity to Brewer's yeast, the pleomorphic organism Naessens has identified goes way beyond anything found in textbooks. The somatid is an astonishing shape shifter in culture. Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D. is director of the The Moss Reports for cancer patients. Dr. Moss is the author of eleven books and three documentaries on cancer-related topics.