Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive ...

Most people have encountered the black, gray, or pink stains of bacterial biofilms built up on the bathroom tiles or kitchen ...

Bacterial vaginosis ... They’ll smear the cells on a small microscope slide and mix them with a saline solution. They’ll view the slide under a microscope. Your doctor will know what type ...

As concerns about waning antibiotic effectiveness grow, researchers are using unique tools to search for new ways to keep ...

Bacteria can infect the prostate ... which involves taking some tissue from the prostate and examining it under a microscope These tests can confirm a diagnosis of prostatitis and rule out ...

Have you ever taken medicine for a nose or ear infection, or a long-lasting cough ... usually single-celled organism you can only see under a microscope. So would it surprise you to know that some ...

However, when disrupted by a bacterial infection and under acidic conditions, TOM1 and possibly TOLLIP are intracellularly sequestered by binding to the bacterially produced lipid, promoting the ...

A health alert has been issued by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in response to reports of a fatal bacterial infection that thrives in warm coastal waters. The Vibrio vulnificus ...