Bacteria are classified into different groups depending on their shape. There are five distinct bacterial shapes: spherical, rod, spiral, comma, and corkscrew. Bacteria, just like any other living ...

Clostridium botulinum is a rod-shaped bacteria that produces lethal toxins under low-oxygen conditions that can cause ...

The artificial cell’s “birth length," as Weady described it, was about two micrometers by one micrometer and resembled a rod-shaped bacterium like Escherichia coli. The particles grew in proportion to ...

Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that inhabits the gut of warm-blooded animals. It is a prokaryotic model organism and is widely used as an experimental workhorse for DNA ...

This work investigates the interaction between common rod-shaped bacteria such as Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas aeruginosa and lytic phages to provide insights into their proliferating active ...

FILE: A digitally colourised scanning electron microscopic image depicts a grouping of red-coloured, rod-shaped Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria which cause tuberculosis in human beings.