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Salmonella Typhimurium infection of a human epithelial cell

Human macrophage rupturing after infection with Chlamydia

Clostridium difficile infected mouse caecum

Clostridium difficile

Shigella flexneri invading embryonic stem cell

Trichuris muris is a parasitic nematode affecting mice. Following ingestion, T. muris eggs hatch in the large intestine where they develop into adults. The anterior end of the worm burrows into the lining of the gut, leaving the posterior end protruding into the lumen of the gut. The worms mate in this orientation, and the resulting eggs are released in to the gut lumen and shed faecally. 

Group A Streptococci are a species of gram-positive bacteria responsible for causing a number of pyogenic (pus-producing) infections including impetigo, scarlet fever and pneumonia. Further fatal complications arising from infection include the development of meningitis and sepsis.

Salmonella detection by human epithelial type-2 cell

Bodo saltans ingesting bacteria

Clostridium difficile colony

Salmonella Typhimurium

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Salmonella Typhimurium

Clostridium difficile infected mouse caecum

Shigella flexneri invading embryonic stem cell

Salmonella detection by human epithelial type-2 cell

David Goulding, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Images from the collections

Images by David Goulding, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Works from the collections

Salmonella Typhimurium

Clostridium difficile infected mouse caecum

Shigella flexneri invading embryonic stem cell

Salmonella detection by human epithelial type-2 cell

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