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'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.

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.

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

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

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

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Bacteria

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Images referencing Bacteria

Works from the collections

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

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

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

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

Bacteria

Images from the collections

Images referencing Bacteria

Works from the collections

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

Aids to bacteriology / by William Partridge.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae : movement, growth and colony formation.

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

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

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