Image of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Description:
At a magnification of 13172x, this scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted a number of Gram-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria. As an obligate aerobic organism M. tuberculosis can only survive in an environment containing oxygen. This bacterium ranges in length between 2 - 4µm, and a width between 0.2 - 0.5µm.
Created: 2006
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Bacteria
- Actinobacteria
- Mycobacteriaceae
- Mycobacterium
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Actinomycetales
- Actinobacteria
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- cc-publicdomain
- photographer
- Janice Carr
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- Public Health Image Library
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