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Bacteria Rule - Interactive quiz tests your knowledge of bacteria. Each question includes answer and explanation. From National Geographic
Introduction to the Bacteria - Topics include morphology, systematics, life history and ecology, and the fossil record.
Genetic Recombination in Bacteria - Essay describing the three mechanisms that bacteria have to accomplish genetic recombination.
Stalking the Mysterious Microbe - Are microbes just germs? Join microbiologist Sam Sleuth to learn more about microbes like bacteria and viruses. Find out what microbes look like, how they evolved and where bacteria and viruses live.
Las Bacterias - Información acerca de estos seres que pertenecen al grupo de los protistos inferiores.
What's Good About Sewer Bacteria? More Than You Think - Read about the water waste treatment plant (WWTP) bacteria and how it may be used as an energy source.
Virtual Museum of Bacteria - Provides information on all aspects of bacteria. Includes links to other sites, including video clips and images.
Microbial ID - Bacteria and Microbial Identification - We are a microbiology service laboratory which uses the MIDI Sherlock Microbial Identification System to identify aerobic bacteria, anaerobic bacteria and yeast by fatty acid analysis.
The Friendly Bugs Site - Basics about bacteria, including bacteria in food, industry, wild, and other worlds.
Bugs in the News - Articles and books about viruses and bacteria from the Univ. of Kansas.

Economic importance of bacteria - The economic importance of bacteria derives from the fact that bacteria can be deliberately exploited by humans in a number of beneficial ways. Despite the fact that some bacteria play harmful roles, such as causing disease and spoiling food, the economic importance of bacteria includes both their useful and harmful aspects.
Cancer bacteria - Cancer bacteria refers to bacteria (not viruses) known or suspected to cause cancer. Some of these may in fact be opportunists: bacteria present in the environment that colonize a host made vulnerable by cancer.
Polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria - Polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria, frequently referred to simply as encapsulated bacteria and less precisely called encapsulated organisms, are a group of bacteria that have an outer covering, a capsule, made of polysaccharide.
Acetic acid bacteria - Acetic acid bacteria are bacteria that derive their energy from the oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid during respiration. They are Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria.
High-GC content bacteria - High-GC content bacteria are Gram-positive bacteria with a high number of guanine and cytosine bases as compared to adenine and thymine. These bacteria are of the class ActinobacteriaÂ NCBI Taxonomy browser, http://www.