bacteria Archives - Medical Microbiology & RDT Labs

Actinomycetes

Actinomycetes are traditionally considered to be transitional forms between bacteria and fungi. Because, like fungi they form a mycelial network

Mycoplasmas are group of bacteria those do not have cell wall and are highly pleomorphic, with no fixed shape or size.

Mycobacteria are slender rods that sometimes show branching filamentous from resembling fungal mycelium. In liquid cultures they form a mold-like

The genus Brucella consist of very small, nonmotile, aerobic, Gram negative coccobacilli those grow poorly on ordinary media and have little or

The plague bacillus and many other Gram negative, short bacilli that are primary pathogens of rodents were grouped together in

Pseudomonas are a large group of aerobic, non sporing Gram negative bacilli, they are motile by polar flagella. They are

Vibrios are actively motile by means of a polar flagellum, they are Gram negative, rigid, curved rods. The name ‘vibrio’

Salmonella genus consist of bacilli those live as parasite in the intestine of a large number of vertebrate species and produce

Dysentery is a clinical condition of multiple etiology, characterized by the frequent passage of blood stained, mucopurulent stools. Two common

This genus is named after Escherich who was the first to describe the colon bacillus under the name Bacterium coli commune (1885).