Leptospira bacteria research

Credit: PEGGY GREB/US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

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Caption: Leptospira bacteria research. Researchers studying images of Leptospira bacteria in silver-stained experimental tissues. This bacteria, often transmitted in animal urine, causes leptospirosis which has a range of symptoms depending on type, ranging from mild to severe. These bacteria are part of a wider class known as spirochaetes, with long, helically coiled (spiral-shaped) cells. The tissue on the screen is from a kidney. An advanced form of this disease, causing kidney failure, is known as Weil's disease.

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