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Electron Microscopy images of viruses and bacteria

Date:  18/12/2024

Cutout: Acinetobacter baumannii. Electron microscopy.
Acinetobacter baumannii
Cutout: Semliki Forest virus (Alphaviruses). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 200 nm.
Alphaviruses (Togaviridae)
Cutout: Bacillus anthracis, colony, vegetative Bacteria (predominantly in chains) without visible formation of spores. Scanning electron microscope, SEM. Bar = 3 μm.
Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)
Cutout: Bacillus cereus, colony, vegetative Bacteria (predominantly in chains). Electron microscopy. Bar = 5 μm.
Bacillus cereus
Cutout: Brucella melitensis biovar abortus ((Brucella). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Initial magnification x 40000.
Brucella melitensis
Cutout: Burkholderia mallei, amastigote bacteria (chain forming). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 1 μm.
Burkholderia mallei
Cutout: Burkholderia pseudomallei, flagellated bacteria. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 1 μm.
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Cutout: Candida albican. Electron microscopy. Bar = 2 µm.
Candida albicans
Cutout: Clostridium difficile NCTC 13307 (Clostridia), cluster of bacteria. Scanning electron microscopy. Bar = 500 µm.
Clostridium difficile
Cutout: Clostridium perfringens. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 500 nm.
Clostridium perfringens
Cutout: Corynebacterium diphtheriae gravis.Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 500 nm.
Diphtheria bacterium (Corynebacterium diphtheriae gravis)
Cutout: Electron microscopy of Ebola viruses (coloured).
Ebola virus (filoviridae)
Cutout: Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF34. Bacteria on Agar. Scanning electron microscopy.
Enterococcus faecalis
Cutout: Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of the serotype O104:H4. Electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 500 nm.
Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
Cutout: West Nile virus. Flavivirus, Flaviviridae. Electron microscopy, ultrathin sectioning. Bar = 100 nm.
Flaviviruses
Cutout: Francisella tularensis, cluster of bacteria. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 1 µm.
Francisella tularensis
Cutout: Puumala virus (Hantaviruses). Transmission electron microscopy, ultrathin section. Bar = 200 nm.
Hantaviruses
Helicobacter pylori. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 500 nm.
Helicobacter pylori
Cutout: Hepatitis B virus, HBV, primary magnification x 50000, genetically engineered HBV cores; colored.
Hepatitis viruses
Cutout: HIV-1 on H9. Human T-cell leukemia (lymphotropic), Infection with HIV-1 (retroviruses). Negative staining, Transmission electron microscopy. Bar = 500 nm.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
Cutout: Human papillomavirus, HPV. Biopsy human warts. Electron microscopy, ultrathin section. Bar = 1µm.
Human papillomaviruses
Cutout: Influenza A virus A/California/7/2009 (H1N1), colouring, negative staining, Transmission-electron microscopy (TEM). Initial magnification x 85000.
Influenza A virus
Cutout: Klebsiella pneumoniae.  Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 1 µm.
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Cutout: Legionella pneumophila, strain Corby. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 500 nm.
Legionella pneumophila
Listeria monocytogenes wildtype EGD. Scanning electron microscopy. Bar = 1 µm.
Listeria monocytogenes
Cutout: Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (Arenavirus). Transmission electron microscopy, ultra thin section. Bar = 200 nm.
Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus
Sutout: Lake Victoria Marburg virus (Filoviruses), genetically engineered VLPs (Virus-like particles). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 200 nm.
Marburg virus
Cutout: Measles virus (Paramyxoviridae). Transmission electron microscopy ultra thin section. Bar = 200 nm.
Measles virus
Monkeypox virus, MPXV; Poxviridae; Chordopoxvirinae. Transmission electron microscopy ultra thin section. Bar = 200 nm.
Monkeypox virus
Cutoutt: Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scanning electron microscopy. Bar = 1 µm.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Cutout: Norwalk-like Virus (Caliciviridae). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 100 nm.
Norovirus
Cutout: Paramyxovirus, Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining.
Paramyxoviruses
Bordetella parapertussis DSM 13415. Transmission electron microscopy.
Pertussis
Polioviruses, colored. Electron microscopy.
Poliovirus
Cutout: Vaccinia virus (Orthopoxviruses), vaccine strain against smallpox. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 200 nm.
Poxviruses
Cutout: Respiratory syncytial virus, RSV. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 200 nm.
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Cutout: RVFV, Rift Valley fever virus MP12 (Bunyavirus). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 100 nm.
Rift Valley fever virus MP12
Cutout: HRV, Human rotavirus.Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 100 nm.
Rotavirus
Cutout: Salmonella enterica Subspecies enterica Serovar Typhimurium (Salmonella), colony. Scanning electron microscopy. Bar = 1 μm.
Salmonella enterica
Cutout: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS). Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 100 nm.
SARS coronavirus
Cutout: Shigella flexneri (Shigella), cluster of bacteria. Transmission electron microscopy, negative staining. Bar = 1 μm.
Shigella flexneri
Cutout: Staphylococcus aureus. Transmission electron microscopy, ultra thin section.
Staphylococcus aureus
Cutout: Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus). Transmission electron microscopy,  negative staining. Bar = 1 µm.
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Cutout: Scanning electron microscopy. Bar = 1 µm.
Vibrio cholerae
Yersinia pestis, colony. Scanning-electron microscopy. Bar = 500 nm.
Yersinia pestis

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