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Pseudohyphae of Candida albicans in brain. PAS stain (250X) Read More

Blastomyces dermatitidis. Yeast phase. Interference phase microscopy Read More

Neisseria meningitidis. Differential sugar reactions. (1-8) Read More

A fruticose (leaflike) lichen. Taken from the Wistreich Collection, appearing exclusively on MicrobeWorld. Read More

Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. Tissue form grown in vitro at 37C Read More

Escheria coli in spinal fluid - gram stain Read More

Scientists at Northeastern University have taken a major step towards being able to grow previously uncultivable bacteria in the lab, the potential key to developing a new generation of highly effective antibiotics.

Examining bacterial communities enveloping particles of sand, the Northeaster... Read More

The bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis, which lives in the human gut, is just one type of microbe that will be studied as part of NIH's Human Microbiome Project. Read More

Accompanying the previous NYT article 'Tracing Oil Reserves to their Tiny Origins" is this graphic which depicts the oil formation process. Read More

I comment a bit, as an educator, about the loss of Carl Woese. Not only the importance of his discoveries, but how he went about his work, remains of great value. Read More

b323-4 clostridium perfringens biochemical reactions 15x Read More

Conidia of Exophiala jeanselmei. Sporulation is from 'shoulder' or distal end of a hyphal cell, or from the tip of a conidiophore. LCB stain. Read More

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

Magnification 65,000X.

Smallpox is a serious, highly contagious, and sometimes fatal infectious viral disease. There is no specific treatment for smallpox disease, and the only prevention is a smallpox vaccination. Read More

Blastomyces dermatitidis in pus from a dressing. Two characteristic budding cells are present. Note broad base building Read More

Absidia corymbifera in a transplantable 'tumor' of the mouse Read More

Actin (purple), microtubules (yellow), and nuclei (green) are labeled in these cells by immunofluorescence. This image won first place in the Nikon 2003 Small World photo competition.

Torsten Wittmann, Scripps Research Institute Read More

Cladosporium carrioni in chromomycosis. Brown Sclerotic cells. H & E stain Read More

Acid fast colony (triple stain) in blood culture of a patient with untreated pulminary tuberculosis Read More

The appearance of an algal bloom in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. From the Wistreich Collection Read More