MicrobeWorld

Cartoon of a couple of bacteria having marital problems. Via Wikipedia Commons. Illustration by Gaspirtz. Read More

Filamentous yeast from spoiled beverage. Filaments and budding. Phase. (1008X) Read More

Each year the ASM's MicrobeLibrary Visual Collection Editorial Committee presents the Editor's Choice Award to three visual resources (one animation, one still image, and one video) published over the past year. The chosen resources exemplify the criteria for publication in the MicrobeLibrary. T... Read More

I just received a microscope the other day with a detachable USB camera! This is one of the first photos I took on it. Not the best as I'm still learning how to use it... but there are distinct Gram positive bacilli, cocci (diplococci I believe), and Gram negative bacilli from a finger inocula... Read More

I created these two plate cultures for a "most popular" photo scholarship contest on the web and amazingly I have received a nice popularity score thus far. The plates are of Eosin Methylene Blue Agar media with Escherichia coli as the stem and leaves and Salmonella paratyphi as the petels. If... Read More

Microsporum gypseum colony on Sabouraud's agar Read More

Microsporum gypseum macroconidia. Interference microscopy. (400X) Read More

Microsporum gypseum microconidia. Unstained interference phase microscope. (1000X) Read More

Microsporum canis macroconidium. Unstained interference phase. (1000X) Read More

Microsporum canis macroconidia. Interference phase microscopt (400X) Read More

Sulfer granules from patient with draining actinomycotic lesion Read More

Actinomyces israelii. Gram stain broth culture Read More

Intestinal anthrax. Human case. Note edema of mucosa Read More

Since 1999, Artomatic, a one-of-a-kind multimedia event, involving hundreds of regional artists, performers and volunteers, in Washington, D.C. has been convening annually in the Washington, D.C., area. This past year artist Forrest McCluer culled together a series of sculptures constructed from... Read More

Listeria monocytogenes. Gram stain from BHI broth at 36 hours (1000X) Read More

Carl Zimmer wondered if scientists had tattoos of their science and as it turns out, many do! Check out this great collection of science tattoos. I have to admit I browsed through the whole 23 page collection, fascinated by the art of science and seeing, in some cases, the full colored beauty of... Read More

Legionella pneumophilia in yolk sac of embryonated egg as stained by the Gimenez method Read More

H and E stained lung sections of patient from whom the legionella pneumophila was isolated stained with CDC's modification of the Dieterle silver impregnation procedure. Note the small, blunt pleomorphic intracellular and extracellular bacilli which stain brown to black against a pale yellow bac... Read More

Brown and Brenn stained lung sections of patient from whom Legionella pneumophilia was isolated, showing intra-alveolar exudation of macrophages and polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Legionella pneumophilia is not stained (500X) Read More

H and E Stained lung sections of patient from whom the Legionella pneumophilia was isolated, showing inter-alveolar exudation of macrophages and poly-morphic leukocytes. Legionella pneumophilia is not stained Read More