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    More microbes

Hello. We are Escherichia coli! We are here to put the record straight
on something - despite what you might have heard, we are not all out to
kill.

That E. coli O157:H7 strain has been giving the rest of us a bad name,
going around causing food poisoning in adults who eat undercooked beef
or contaminated veggies.

But he is just one of many E. coli strains, and the rest of us are sick
of all the negative press. Some of us are pretty big in the science
world you know, with scientists studying us and using us for their
molecular biology techniques. All those humans in white coats work call
us model organisms because we are so harmless and easy to handle - we
double in numbers in just 20 minutes under the right conditions.

Plus, without us living in your guts and helping process waste and
absorb important nutrients, not to mention stopping any nasty bacteria
from taking up residence, you'd all be in deep poo. Talking of poo,
that's where you'll find us - 90% of the cells making up a human body
are bacteria that live in your intestines, so just imagine how many of
us you flush away every day! We should probably use this opportunity to
apologize for all that flatulence though, we really can't help producing
gas when we eat. Honest.

Low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria,
magnified 10,000 times. Each individual bacterium is oblong shaped.
Photo by Eric Erbe, digital colorization by Christopher Pooley, both of
USDA, ARS, EMU.

	
<germstories.htm>'Germ Stories' by Arthur Kornberg brings the world of
microbes to life. You can read a review of this book here <germstories.htm>

<agar_art.htm> NEW!Agar Art <agar_art.htm> - Works of art created on
petri dishes with bacteria and fungi!

About Bacteria
What do bacteria look like? <bacteriashape.htm>
Inside the bacterial cell <bacterialcell.htm>

The Good Guys
/Escherichia coli/ <ecoli.htm>/
Bacillus subtilis <spore.htm> /

The Bad Boys
/Mycobacterium tuberculosis/ <tuberculosis.htm>/
MRSA <mrsa.htm>
/Black death <black.htm>/
Porphyromonas gingivalis <porphyromonas.htm>
Chlamydia trachomatis <chlamydia.htm>
Salmonella typhi <salmonella.htm>
Treponema pallidum <treponema.htm>
Proteus mirabilis <proteusmirabilis.htm>
Streptococcus pyogenes <streptococcus.htm>
Neisseria gonorrhoeae <neisseria.htm>
Helicobacter pylori <helicobacter.htm>
Mycobacterium leprae <leprae.htm>
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