Microbiology

Access Excellence - A great place for biology science teachers. Contains current science news items, teachers exchange, hundreds of science labs and educational resources.
www.accessexcellence.org/

Active Learning Centre- Microbiology - Test your microbiology knowledge at this site. It also includes basic descriptions of various microorganisms.
www.med.jhu.edu/medcenter/quiz/quiz.cgi?dbfield=micro&actionField=startup

Affiliated Medical Services Laboratory, Inc. - AMS is a regional clinical reference laboratory serving physicians, clinics, hospitals, government and industry. Specialties include cytology, microbiology, hematology, chemistry, drug screening and toxicology.
www.amsreferencelab.com/

Bacteria Animal Symbiosis Site - Symbiotic interactions between bacteria and animals are described with pictures and links to home pages of researchers and to publications
web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/Sym.html

Bugs in the News - John (Jack) C. Brown from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas has created great microbiology site. It includes a "What the Heck is?", a general interest, and other bug bytes sections.
people.ku.edu/~jbrown/bugs.html

CELLS Alive! - Good general microbiology information, with images and videos.
www.cellsalive.com/

EPA Microbiology Page - This site contains microbiology-related information that has been developed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Image gallery of various parasites and viruses.
www.epa.gov/nerlcwww/

The FDA Bad Bug page - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's handbook which provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. Good information and a lot of good content.
vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Biochime Appliquée - LMBA is a microbiological laboratory in France where research focuses on the study of the mode of action of the probiotic bacteria, Bacillus and Lactobacillus.
www.enitab.fr/recherche/lmba/index.html

Luminescent Bacteria - Do you know that the luminous bacteria exist ? On these pages you will find short characteristic of these strange organisms and some photos.
biology.pl/bakterie_sw/index_en.html

Medical Microbiology - A website containing information on the microorganisms that cause diseases in humans. Lecture notes, laboratory notebook, computerized clinical cases, and most common causes of infectious diseases file.
www.kcom.edu/faculty/chamberlain/

Medical Microbiology - Online textbook with scientific and medical information on many disease causing organisms.
gsbs.utmb.edu/microbook/

MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery - Annotated and colorized images of insects and bacteria.
www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/

The MicrobeLibrary.org - Contains visual and curricular resources of use to teachers of microbiology.
www.microbelibrary.org/

Microbes.info - This site links to an enormous amount of microbiology articles and information.
www.microbes.info/

MicrobeWiki - Student-initiated community resource on microbes and microbiology, including material on bacteria, archaea, eukaryotic microbes, viruses, bacteriophages, microbiology in the news, and common errors and controversies in the field.
microbewiki.kenyon.edu/

Microbeworld: Your Gateway to the World of Microbes - A place to view colorful images of microbes, read intriguing microbial facts and trivia, get educational resources and activities, and learn more about these fascinating microscopic creatures.
www.microbeworld.org/

Microbiology 101/102 - Dr. Hurlbert's site includes an enormous amount of information for people interested in learning about Microbiology.
www.slic2.wsu.edu:82/hurlbert/micro101/pages/101hmpg.html

Microbiology 1020 - Jerome Knutson, University of Minnisota Crookston, has created a good introductory Microbiology course.
sunny.crk.umn.edu/courses/biolknut/1020/microbiology.htm

Microbiology and Immunology Online - Dr. Richard Hunt and his colleagues at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine have created an excellent Medical Microbiology and Immunology website.
pathmicro.med.sc.edu/book/welcome.htm

Microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada - This site contains data on antimicrobial resistance in Canada, the incidence of serious disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae and group A streptococcus, sample clinical microbiology lab manuals, and microbiology and infectious diseases information for professionals and the public.
microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca

The Microbiology Network - Links to users' groups on the WWW, mail lists, forums, and file libraries. Major areas of interest are regulatory microbiology in the pharmaceutical, food, and personal care industries.
microbiol.org/

Microbiology Webbed Out - Timothy Paustian from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created an excellent microbiology textbook.
www.bact.wisc.edu/microtextbook/index.html

MicroWeb - A medical microbiology/infectious diseases site produced by Mount Sinai Hospital and Toronto Medical Laboratories. It contains current infectious disease news, a mycology image gallery, bug of the month, tech teasers, and an online lab manual.
microbiology.mtsinai.on.ca/home.shtml

Name that Bug! - A fun bacterial identification exercise.
users.stlcc.edu/kkiser/Name.bug.html

National Center for Infectious Diseases - NCID conducts surveillance, epidemic investigations, epidemiological and laboratory research, training, and public education programs to develop, evaluate, and promote prevention and control strategies for infectious diseases - division of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/index.htm

NIH: Grants & Funding Opportunities - Grants and Funding Opportunities at the National Institutes of Health
grants1.nih.gov/grants/

Plague Wars - A Frontline/PBS collaborative that details how viruses and bacteria have been developed/used as bioweapons and the history of bioweapons.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/

Provlab: Alberta - Provides information on public health, infectious disease profiles, mycology, virology, parasitology, mycobacteriology, bacteriology and environmental health.
www2.provlab.ab.ca/

A Review on Escherichia coli adenylate cyclase - A constantly updated review on Escherichia coli adenylate cyclase with references and graphics. Also, a section "Oldies but Goldies" to be updated and focusing on classic literature in Microbiology.
www.minst.org/ecoli_cyclase.htm

Ron's Pond Scum - Microscopic images of fresh water microlife. Images and descriptive text not limited to Paramecium, Amoeba, Stentor, Vorticella or Daphnia.
www.silkentent.com/gus1911/RonPond.htm

Salmonellosis and its Laboratory Diagnosis - Dr. Avinash Abhyankar provides a description of salmonella infections, the isolation of salmonella typhi in the laboratory and the laboratory diagnosis of typhoid fever.
www.geocities.com/avinash_abhyankar/

Suite101.com: Microbiology - A site containing monthly articles on microbiology topics without all the scientific jargon. Many links to sites with good content and discussions on various topics in microbiology.
microbiology.suite101.com/

The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea - TOBA is a comprehensive taxonomy of the type strains of bacteria and archaea, based on the 16S rRNA gene phylogeny.
www.taxonomicoutline.org

Tetracycline and MLS Antibiotic Nomenclature - Latest information on the Tetracycline and Macrolide-Lincosamide-Streptogramin (MLS) antibiotic resistance genes and their structure.
faculty.washington.edu/marilynr/

Twisted Bacteria - Musings on the world of microbiology, with a focus on actinomycetes, a group of bacteria, and the biosynthesis of natural products of pharmaceutical interest such as antibiotics and antitumor drugs.
twistedbacteria.blogspot.com/

Virtual Museum of Bacteria - The museum provides information for the general public on all aspects of bacteria with integrated hyperlinks to >250 relevant sites. Annotated lists of links are also provided for professional microbiologists
www.bacteriamuseum.org

Zoogloea - Researchers at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, have studied these gramnegative aerobic chemo-organotrophic bacteria.
zoogloea.com