Serratia is a bacterium that some doctors and residents of the Bay Area have been familiar with for many years. In 1950, government officials believed that serratia did not cause disease. That belief ...

The Killer Bacteria Hall of Fame no doubt houses the usual suspects: Yersinia pestis, perpetrator of the Plague; Treponema pallidum, the spiral-shaped culprit in syphilis; and Vibrio cholerae, the ...

You see them when you slack on cleaning — mysterious pink rings and streaks that form in your toilets, sinks and bathtubs. The Record's Bill Radke speaks with reporter Amy Rolph about the bizarre ...

The identities of marine bacterial isolates were confirmed by first PCR-amplifying fragments of their 16S rRNA genes with primers 8F (pA) 5′-AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG-3′ and 1489R 5′-TACCTTGTTACGACTTCA-3′ ...