Dinobulan flesh-eating bacteria
Dinobulan flesh-eating bacteria were a deadly type of bacteria.

Before a mission to  and elsewhere in 2380, Lieutenant Commander  and Lieutenant Shaxs asked Ensign Sam Rutherford if he had received his shots to prevent Dinobulan flesh-eating bacteria from infecting him. Shaxs noted the bacteria could eat right through clothing, with Billups affirming that he had seen the bacteria affect someone before, saying that it was a "terrible way to die." () 

Microorganisms