In science, botulism is a form of food poisoning. It is caused by Clostridium butulinum, an obligately anaerobic, endospore-forming, gram positive rod that is found in soil and in sediment in various freshwater as observed through the microscope. In an anaerobic environments, such as sealed cans, the microorganism, which can only be seen under the […]

In science, Clostridium tetani is an obligately anaerobic, endospore forming gram positive rod is the causative agent of tetanus. As examined through the microscope, it is commonly found in soil contaminated with animal fecal wastes. An extremely potent neurotoxin or tetanospasmin cause the symptoms of tetanus as seen under the microscope. It is released upon […]

Listeria monocytogenes is a gram positive rod bacterium associated with a great variety of animals. As closely examined through the microscope, the pathogenic bacterium is widely distributed in soil and water because the bacterium is excreted in animal feces. The name of this bacterium is derived from the proliferation of monocytes as a type of […]

Examinations through the microscopes of microbial infections of the central nervous system are infrequent but often have serious consequences. Infection of the meninges is called meningitis. Infection of the brain itself is called encephalitis.
BACTERIAL MENINGITIS

Meningitis as defined in microbiology is an inflammation of the meninges. Headache and symptoms of nausea and vomiting are the most […]

Pneumonia is an illness where the lungs become inflamed and flooded with fluid. In this disease the alveoli or microscopic air-filled sacs of the lung responsible for absorbing oxygen from the atmosphere is affected. Pneumonia can be applied to many pulmonary infections because different microorganisms cause pneumonia. It can be an infection from bacteria, viruses, […]

Mycobacterium leprae, although it can also develop in skin cells, is possibly the only bacterium that develops in the peripheral nervous system. It is an acid-fast rod organism nearly associated to Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a tuberculosis pathogen.
Gerhard A. Hansen of Norway in 1870 discovered through the use of a microscope that the organism first isolated and […]