The oral bacterium or bacteria naturally inhabiting in the mouth of an individual are usually harmless. However, for some uncertain reasons, they become injurious and disease-causing once they have entered or infiltrated a different habitat. Researchers have been searching for some clues on how to resolve these problems. The more interesting thing is that how […]

Whenever disease-causing bacteria encounter a new obstacle, they have a way to overcome it by exchanging DNA with their relatives in order to adapt to a new environments and conditions.  This revelations by scientists from NIAID seem to settle the long-standing question of the origin, the how and why of two diseases.  Toxic Shock Syndrome […]

A unique group of nearly 40 new bacteria, which can be found almost everywhere, even in the absence of air, when given the right kind of food, has the capability to produce oxygen.
We can think of very many possible applications in this aspect.  They could supply air tanks for deep-sea activities, or treat deep-wound injuries, […]

Science has come a long way in discovering the evolution of man and everything else. Only one thing remains constant, in all those billions and billions of years of development, one organism has an ingrained ability to survive, no matter what. This organism is known as bacteria.

In this article, Jim Lake and Maria Rivera, researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), released their report that complex cells found in the human body have probably been the result of a combination of genomes from a prehistoric microbe called Archaea in an effort to survive hostile environments.

This is about a research study that exposes how bacteria communicate regarding their natural habitat.
In the article, the research project that commenced through raising obscure queries regarding the glowing marine bacterium has started to elucidate the workings of numerous bacteria and could end up in a novel class of antibiotics. Quorum-sensing gene may possibly result […]

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 […]