Bacteria come in a surprising variety of shapes: the more commonly known are coccus, bacillus. But curved cell shapes are also widespread among bacteria and important for cellular motility, virulence, ...
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5,550-year-old Colombian man carries world’s oldest syphilis-related bacteria, study finds
What began as a study of human population history quickly evolved into a groundbreaking ...
Lamya El Mortaji, Alejandro Tejada-Arranz, Aline Rifflet, Ivo G. Boneca, Gérard Pehau-Arnaudet, J. Pablo Radicella, Stéphanie Marsin, Hilde De Reuse Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of ...
Three centuries after a pioneering Dutch microbiologist first observed the spiral-shaped oral pathogen Treponema denticola, scientists have deciphered the bacterium's entire DNA sequence and used ...
Do you suffer from stomach ulcers? There’s a good chance they’re due to Helicobacter pylori, one of my favorite bacteria! Why helix-shaped? Because it’s cool! Not really. The cells are probably shaped ...
Spirochetes are a type of free-living, spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are harmless and others that can cause disease in people. Leptospires are an infectious kind of spirochete that cause ...
The peat sample used as the isolation source of bacteria described in this study was obtained from the acidic (pH 4.7) Sphagnum-dominated peat bog Shumnovo (N 56°42′, E 36°52′, Tver region, Russia) in ...
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