Specific

Microbes
Sunday, October 2, 2016

9:50 PM

Name

Description

Mycobacterium

Contain MYCOLIC acid

B. anthracis

Treponema
Pallidum

- Spirochete shaped
- Visible with dark field microscopy
- Causative agent of syphilis

Cyanobacteria

- Photosynthetic bacteria
- Contains gas vesicles

Streptococcus
pyogenes

- Coccus shaped

Spirillium
volutans

- Spirillum shaped

Caulobacter
crescentus

- Budding/appendaged shape

Streptomyces
griseus

- Filamentous bacteria

E. Coli

Endospore producing
Rod shaped
Causative agent of anthrax
50 - 100 layers of peptidoglycan
Gram POSITIVE

1.0 x 3.0 um
1 layer of peptidoglycan
Bacillus shaped
LAC permease
Gram +ve

Staphylococcus - Pathogenic bacteria

aureus
- 1.0 um
- Gram positive
Interbridges made out of 5 GLYCINE RESIDUES
- Halotolerant
- Selective medium (grown in)

Staphylococcus - Pathogenic bacteria

aureus
- 1.0 um
- Gram positive
Interbridges made out of 5 GLYCINE RESIDUES
- Halotolerant
- Selective medium (grown in)
Clostridium

- Anaerobic gram positive

Mycoplasma
genitalium

- Does not have peptidoglycan

Has sterols to give it structure instead
- 0.3 um

Epulopiscium
fishelsonii

- 80x 600 um

Anabaena

Autrotroph

Coxiella burnetii

Causative agent of Q fever - the bacteria that is killed by

pasteurization and the most resistant pathogen found in milk