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Bacteria

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Images about Bacteria

14 images from works
  • 'Wellcome' brucella milk ring test antigen.
  • People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.
  • Bacterial metabolism / by Marjory Stephenson.
  • Bacilli of tonsillitis (Vincent's angina). Drawing by H. Vincent.
  • 'Wellcome' brucella milk ring test antigen.
  • A man trying to catch germs in a handkerchief. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount and Carl Giles.
  • A doctor visiting a patient with a variety of microbes to improve the patient's health. Wood engraving after A. Rackham, 1905.
  • Dangers to the health of infants: germs and bacteria. Colour lithograph, 1922.
  • Vincent's angina: microscopic views of spirochetes (left) and bacillus fusiformis (right). Drawing by Jean Hyacinthe Vincent.
  • 'Wellcome' brucella milk ring test antigen.

Works from the collections

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    People using Anios disinfectant to destroy microbes representing infectious diseases. Colour lithograph by G. de Trye-Maison, ca. 1910.

    Trye-Maison, G. de, active approximately 1910. | Date: [1910?] | Reference: 460155i
    • Books

    Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

    Partridge, William. | Date: 1922
    • Videos

    Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

    | Date: 1969
    • Books

    Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection / by John Tyndall.

    Tyndall, John, 1820-1893. | Date: 1881
    • Books

    Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology / by Robert S. Breed, E.G.D. Murray, A. Parker Hitchens ; assisted by 60 contributors.

    Bergey, D. H. (David Hendricks), 1860-1937. | Date: 1948
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