Microbe SEMS

Marine viruses

Marine viruses, shown in purple, surround potential microbes. The odds are stacked against the microbes when there are so many viruses. Willie Wilson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

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Phage

Phages are viruses that infect bacteria. They have a characteristic shape. Cyanophage photo by Willie Wilson, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

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Electron micrograph of Coxsackie virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows Coxsackie B4 virus particles.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ 1981

Source

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 5630)

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Herpes viruses

Description

This electron micrograph shows variola, varicella, and vaccinia virions.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. James Nakano, content provider/ 1975

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Varicella (chickenpox) virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows the varicella (chickenpox) virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Erskine Palmer and B.G. Partin, content providers/ 1982

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Electron micrograph of human herpes virus type 6

Description

This electron micrograph shows herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6) maturing and being released from a white blood cell. HHV-6 is a double-stranded DNA virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute/ Bernard Kramarsky, photographer/ 1986

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Human herpes virus type 6

Description

This electron micrograph shows human herpes virus type 6 (HHV-6), which is a double-stranded DNA virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute/ Bernard Kramarsky, photographer/ 1986

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Electron micrograph of herpes simplex virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows numerous virions of herpes simplex virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, content providers/ 1975

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Electron micrographs of herpes viruses

Description

These electron micrograph images show herpes viruses, including varicella-zoster virus (chickenpox virus), and herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2 (HSV-1, HSV-2).

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ E. L. Palmer, content provider/ 1981

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Electron micrograph of Epstein-Barr virus

Description

This electron micrograph image shows Epstein-Barr viruses.

Credit

Public domain-freely reused/ Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology/ National Cancer Institute/ Linda Bartlett, photographer/ 1980

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Epstein-Barr viruses

Description

This electron micrograph shows numerous Epstein-Barr virus particles. This virus contains a double-stranded DNA linear genome.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy, content provider/ 1975

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Herpes simplex virions inside a cell

Description

This electron micrograph shows numerous herpes simplex virions located inside a cell nucleus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, content providers/ 1975

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Electron micrograph of herpes simplex virions

Description

This electron micrograph shows numerous herpes simplex virions.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy and Sylvia Whitfield, content providers/ 1975

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Electron micrograph of HTLV-1 and HIV

Description

This electron micrograph shows both the human T-cell leukemia type-1 virus (HTLV-1) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Cynthia Goldsmith, content provider/ Unknown date

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Electron micrograph of HIV mature form

Description

This electron micrograph shows mature forms of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/1983

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HIV “budding” out of a human immune cell

Description

This electron photomicrograph shows HIV budding out of a human immune cell, which the virus infects and uses to make copies.

Credit

Public domain/ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health/ courtesy of Dr. Tom Folks/ 2008

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HIV-infected T cells

Description

This electron photomicrograph shows T cells infected with HIV.

Credit

Public domain / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health / Department of Health and Human Services, courtesy of Dr. Tom Folks / 2008

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Electron micrograph of Hong Kong influenza virus

Description

Electron micrograph shows a Hong Kong H3N2 subtype of the influenza A virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Fred Murphy, content provider/ 1975

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Description This electron micrograph shows an H1N1 influenza virus that causes disease in pigs. It is magnified 37,800 times. Several virus particles are developing while being grown in chicken eggs. Credit Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. E. Palmer and R.E. Bates, content providers/ 1976 Source http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/imageidsearch.asp (Image ID # 10143)

Description

This electron micrograph shows a number of influenza virions. Notice the neuraminidase (N) and hemagglutinin (H) spikes sticking out from the protein coat, or capsid.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. John Hierholzer, content provider/ 1974

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Electron micrograph of H1N1 influenza virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows an H1N1 influenza virus that causes disease in pigs. It is magnified 37,800 times. Several virus particles are developing while being grown in chicken eggs.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. E. Palmer and R.E. Bates, content providers/ 1976

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Electron micrograph of Type A influenza virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows virus particles, or virions, from Type A influenza virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ F.A. Murphy, content provider/ 1976

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Electron micrograph of 1918 influenza virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows several virus particles, or virions, of a re-created 1918 influenza virus growing in kidney cells of a dog.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. Terrence Tumpey, content provider/ Cynthia Goldsmith, photographer/ 2005

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Electron micrograph of influenza virus particles

Description

Electron micrograph shows a number of influenza virus particles, or virions.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ Dr. F. A. Murphy, content provider/ 1973

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Electron micrograph of influenza virus isolated from pigs

Description

This electron micrograph shows several particles, or virions, of an influenza virus that causes the disease in pigs.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ C. S. Goldsmith and A. Balish, content providers/ 2009

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Electron micrograph of influenza virus

Description

This electron micrograph shows an influenza virus particle, or virion. Influenza is a single-stranded RNA virus.

Credit

Public domain/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/ E. L. Palmer and M. Larkin, content providers/ F. Murphy, photographer/ 1981

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Electron micrograph of human papillomavirus

Description

This is an electron photomicrograph of human papillomavirus (HPV) occurring in human warts.

Credit

Public domain/ Laboratory of Tumor Virus Biology, National Cancer Institute/ 1986

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Emiliania huxleyi algae and Emiliania huxleyi virus

Description

This electron micrograph of the algae, Emiliania huxleyi, shows the size comparison with the much smaller Emiliania huxleyi virus (EhV) at the lower left corner.

Credit

Permission granted for educational use/ The Natural History Museum, London (Dr. Jeremy Young) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Angie Fox) / 2009

Source

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/soes/staff/tt/eh/pics/cocco9.jpg

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