Image de Bacillus
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This image depicted Bacillus anthracis bacterial colonies, which had been allowed to grow on sheeps blood agar (SBA) for a 24 hour period. Note the classical appearance exhibited in the colonial morphology including a ground-glass, non-pigmented texture with accompanying comma projections from some of the individual rough-edged colonies. In this particular view, youll note that a tenacity test had been performed using an iinoculating loop, which proved positive for B. anthracis, causing the colony to stand up like beaten egg white.
What is anthrax?
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic mammalian species (cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes, and other herbivores), but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or to tissue from infected animals or when anthrax spores are used as a bioterrorist weapon.
Created: 2009
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- Life
- Cellular (Organismes cellulaires)
- Bacteria
- Firmicutes
- Bacilli
- Bacillales
- Bacillaceae
- Bacillus
- Bacillus anthracis
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