ABCNews OnCall+ spoke with experts about some of the popular myths about germs that tend to spread as fast as the bacteria themselves this time of year. Is a dog's mouth cleaner than a person's?

Different colors, sizes and brands and lots of germs were found. There was quite a bit of bacteria on the plates which was normally bacteria that lived on the skin.Ike Northern is a microbiologist ...

A new "superlens" is so powerful that it could help researchers zero in on germs that were too small ... about the size of the smallest known bacteria. In the past decade or so, researchers ...

Likewise, one species of bacteria forms dynamic ... "After we put an enriched culture of Thiovulum under a microscope, this beautiful structure appeared." Researchers set about determining ...