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PHIL Images From This Week 0015221 01/20/2017 08:00 AM EDT This Gram-stained photomicrograph revealed the presence of what was termed as “deceptive” extracellular diplococcal bacteria. Of importance, a bacterial culture returned a negative result. 0009973 01/19/2017 08:00 AM EDT Magnified 26X, this scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicted a dorsal view of an engorged female tick, which had been extracted from a pet cat. Note the presence of some of the cat's fur, along with some of its skin tissue in which the tick's gnathosoma was embedded, while it had been obtaining a blood meal. 0019384 01/18/2017 08:00 AM EDT This image was created in 2010 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Lifestyle Coordinator Becky Rentz of the Health Promotion Programs, and depicts a CDC staffer using the stairwell of a campus parking deck. 0016877 01/17/2017 08:00 AM EDT This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of a number of Salmonella serotype Typhi bacteria, based upon scanning electron microscopic (SEM) imagery. Note the presence of numerous thin, short fimbriae emanating from the organisms' cell wall, imparting a furry appearance to these bacteria, and the multiple peritrichous flagella, i.e., flagella protruding in all directions from the cell wall, which provide the bacteria with a mode of motility.

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