Image of Neisseria

Description:

This scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted three views of a single Gram-negative Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacterium. Under this highly-magnified view, the roughened texture of the bacterium’s cell wall is made visible. As a Gram-negative bacterium, N. gonorrhoeae possess a thinner cell wall than its Gram-positive cousins, composed of peptidoglycan molecular layers that are sandwiched between a lipid membrane layer.
Created: 1973