Spirillum

... seen all alive in a little drop of water, moving among one another, each several creature having its own proper motion".1 He was looking at a spirillum, probably Spirillum volutans, the large bacterium shown in the accompanying sketch. Leeuwenhoek never saw its flagella. Those organelles of ...

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... number of different ways. Most bacteria are of one of three typical shapes—rod-shaped (bacillus), round (coccus, e.g., streptococcus), and spiral (spirillum). An additional group, vibrios, appear as incomplete spirals. The cytoplasm and plasma membrane of most bacterial cells are surrounded by ...

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... Amanda ~ try this web site........ i hope this will clarify everything :lol: http://biology.kenyon.edu/Microbial_Biorealm/bacteria/proteobacteria/Spirillum/Spirillum.htm

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Here's a site with some info on Spirilla biology.kenyon.edu/Microbial_Biorealm/ bacteria/proteobacteria/Spirillum/Spirillum.htm Diseases caused by Spirilla include syphilis and cholera.

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... Which workplace are especially affected by this bacteria. Then i have to fidn 10 intersting facts about it. About bacteria belonging to the genus Spirillum To start a quick search on Entrez pubmed gave this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=books&doptcmdl=GenBookHL&term=spirilla+AND+148387%5Buid%5D&rid=mmed.section.1976 ...

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