Bacterial Cellular Morphologies

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL PATHOLOGY DAY! Welcome back to #micromeded. This week, I put together a simple figure describing the bacterial cell morphologies. This is a very important part of the microscopic examination of bacteria which, along with the gram stain, can sometimes give the clinician all they need to know to treat the patient (this is becoming less true as antimicrobial resistance spreads, but that is a story for a different post). I hope you enjoy this post and the rest of your #IPD2020!

Check out this image to your left from the ASM educational image gallery and try to name the gram stain and cell morphology using what you have learned from #micromeded thus far!