Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Mycobacteria are slender rods that sometimes show branching filamentous from resembling fungal mycelium. In liquid cultures they form a mold-like
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Author: Gaurav Singh
Covid 19 Pandemic
Covid 19 is used in short form for the disease caused by coronavirus. It is an infectious disease caused by
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Brucella: Morphology, Cultural Characteristics, Biochemical Reactions, Prophylaxis
The genus Brucella consist of very small, nonmotile, aerobic, Gram negative coccobacilli those grow poorly on ordinary media and have little or
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Yersinia Pestis: Morphology, Cultural Characteristics, Biochemical Reactions, Resistance, Diagnosis
The plague bacillus and many other Gram negative, short bacilli that are primary pathogens of rodents were grouped together in
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas are a large group of aerobic, non sporing Gram negative bacilli, they are motile by polar flagella. They are
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Vibrio Cholerae: Morphology, Culture, Pathogenicity, Treatment
Vibrios are actively motile by means of a polar flagellum, they are Gram negative, rigid, curved rods. The name ‘vibrio’
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Salmonella – Morphology. Cultural Characteristics, Prophylaxis, Treatment
Salmonella genus consist of bacilli those live as parasite in the intestine of a large number of vertebrate species and produce
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Shigella – Morphology, Cultural Character, Prophylaxis, Control
Dysentery is a clinical condition of multiple etiology, characterized by the frequent passage of blood stained, mucopurulent stools. Two common
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Escherichia Coli
This genus is named after Escherich who was the first to describe the colon bacillus under the name Bacterium coli commune (1885).
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Anaerobic Infections
Anaerobic infections are usually endogenous and are caused by tissue invasion by bacteria normally resident on the respective body surface.
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