Spirochetes are long, thin, flexible, spirally coiled helical bacilli. These motile, gram-negative bacilli are classified into eight genera primarily on the basis of habitat, pathogenicity,...
Year: 2021
Human skin is home to billions of diverse bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, with bacteria making up the vast majority. Typically, a person has around 1,000 species of bacteria on their...
Candida auris (C. auris) causes a serious and sometimes fatal fungal infection that is emerging globally. First identified in 2009 in Asia, this drug-resistant fungi is an emerging threat especially...
Epitopes, also known as antigenic determinants, are the immunologically active discrete sites on the antigen molecule that physically bind to antibodies, B-cell receptors, or T-cell receptors....
There are two medically important Bacillus species: Bacillus anthracis which causes anthrax, and Bacillus cereus, which causes a foodborne illness (food poisoning) similar to that of...
Moraxella catarrhalis is a small gram-negative diplococcus that resembles the cocci of the genus Neisseria. The genus Moraxella is one of the several in the family Neisseriaceae; other medically...