For hours on end, these microscopists peer through their lenses looking for TB’s tell-tale rod shaped bacteria on tiny blue-stained test samples to diagnose TB. In more than half of TB diagnostic ...

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 ...

Health officials in Oregon are battling cases of dysentery amid a years-long rise in the highly contagious, diarrhea-inducing disease. There have been 40 confirmed cases of shigellosis, an infectious ...