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This false-colored micrograph shows rod-shaped E. coli attached to a glowing green surface via anchor-like fibers, which the bacteria use to invade human tissues.
Nov 30, 2012
Yoo Jin Oh & Peter Hinterdorfer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Sungsu Park, Ewha Womans University, Korea
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