When it comes to the communities of helpful bacteria living in and on people, "one-size-fits-all" is definitely not the rule, a new study finds. Each person has a unique collection of bacterial ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Davey, Reginald. (2022, July 15). Microbiology in Everyday Life.

Earth has something like a trillion species of bacteria, fungi, archaea, and protozoa—the families of life grouped under the general heading of “microbes.” ...

There are numerous types of E. coli bacteria that can cause food poisoning. While each brings about similar symptoms, there are slight variations. Shiga Toxin–Producing E. coli (STEC) STEC is ...

After eight years of study, they found 31,000 unique types of archaea and more than 377,000 unique types of bacteria in their samples. These types are called ASVs (amplicon sequence variants ...

Microbes can grow in clouds and even divide in two. Robert Alexander / Getty Images. All told, from fires and dust storms, from crashing ocean waves and hurricanes, a trillion trillion bacteria ...

Viral vs. Bacterial Infections. Bacterial and viral infections have many things in common. Both types of infections are caused by microbes -- bacteria and viruses, respectively -- and spread by ...

Living and nonliving factors that influence the types of vegetation that grow at different elevations in the Arctic tundra also regulate the types of bacteria that grow in the soil. The ...