There are 3 common shapes of bacteria: the coccus, bacillus, and spiral. Bacteria divide by binary fission, a process by which 1 bacterium splits into 2. A coccus-shaped bacterium is usually spherical ...

The important clinical details of the patients with severe bacterial infection ... caused by gram-negative bacilli and those with infection caused by gram-positive cocci in duration and peak ...

Among spore-forming Gram-positive bacteria, Bacillus spp. was found at ten workstations ... facultative anaerobic bacteria. Gram-positive cocci (12 isolated genera/species) included eight ...