ELECTRON microscopy of ultra-thin sections of avian tubercle bacilli growing on various solid media has revealed details of their internal anatomy. In the initial phase of growth, the structure was ...

Frédéric Kerff, Ana Amoroso, Raphaël Herman, Eric Sauvage, Stéphanie Petrella, Patrice Filée, Paulette Charlier, Bernard Joris, Akira Tabuchi, Nikolas Nikolaidis, Daniel J. Cosgrove Proceedings of the ...

Sixty strains of Bacillus mycoides were isolated from each of two sites and characterized by their responses to standard metabolic tests used in bacterial taxonomy, by multilocus enzyme ...

Bacterial biofilms contain a level of structural organisation that we thought was unique to plants and animals. Biofilms, slimy clumps of microorganisms like bacteria and fungi, were long thought to ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick, ...