SHAPE OF THE

BACTERIA
VETTI VILLADOLID and CELEEN ANN VILLANUEVA
 DEPENDNG ON THEIR SHAPE,
BACTERIA ARE CLASSIFIED INTO
SEVERAL VARIETIES
 COCCI
(FROM KOKKOS
MEANING "BERRY")
ARE SPHERICAL OR
OVAL CELLS
 (FROM BACULUS
MEANING ROD)
BACILLI ARE ROD SHAPED
CELLS
 CHARACTERISTICS GRAM-POSITIVE
RETAIN CRYSTAL VIOLET DYE
GRAM REACTION AND STAIN DARK VIOLET OR
PURPLE
PEPTIDOGLYCAN LAYER THICK (MULTILAYER)
TEICHOIC ACIDS PRESENT IN MANY
PERIPLASMIC SPACE ABSENT
OUTER MEMBRANE ABSENT
LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN LOW (DUE TO ABSENCE OF
CONTENT OUTER MEMBRANE
TOXINS PRODUCED PRIMARILY EXOTOXINS
RESISTANCE TO DRYING HIGH
 VIBRIOS
ARE COMMA SHAPED
CURVED RODS AND
DERIVE THEIR NAME
FROM THEIR
CHARCTERISTICS
VIBRATORY MOTILITY.
 CHARACTERISTICS GRAM-MGATIVE
CAN BE DECOLORIZED TO ACCEPT
GRAM REACTION COUNTESTAIN (SAFRANIN); STAIN
RED
PEPTIDOGLYCAN LAYER THIN (SINGLE – LAYERED)
TEICHOIC ACIDS ABSENT
PERIPLASMIC SPACE PRESENT
OUTER MEMBRANE PRESENT
HIGH (DUE TO PRESENCE OF
LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN CONTENT
OUTER MEMBRANE)
TOXINS PRODUCED PRIMARILY ENDOTOXINS
RESISTANCE TO DRYING LOW
SPIRILLA

ARE RIGID
SPIRAL
FORMS
SPIROCHETES

• From speira
meaning coil
and chaite
meaning hair
• Are flexuous
spiral forms
 ACTINOMYCETES
ARE BRANCHING
FILAMENTOUS BACTERIA,
SO CALLED BECAUSE OF A
FANCIED RESEMBLANCE TO
THE RADIATING RAYS OF
THE SUN WHEN SEEN IN
TISSUE LESIONS (FOM
ACTIS MEANING RAY AND
MYKES MEANING FUNGUS)
MYCOPLASMAS

ARE BACTERIA THAT ARE

CELL WALL DEFICIENT
AND HENCE DO NOT
POSSES A STABLE
MORPHOLOGY. THEY
OCCUR AS ROUND OR
OVAL BODIES AND AS
INTERLACING
 BACTERIA SOMETIME SHOW
CHARACTERISTIC CELLULAR ARRANGEMENT
OR GROUPING. ACCORDING TO THE PLANE
OF CELLUAR DIVISION, COCCI MAY BE
ARRANGED IN PAIRS(DIPLOCOCCI),
CHAINS (STREPTOCOCCI), GROUPS OF
FOUR (TETRADS) OR EIGHT (SARCINA) OR
GRAPE LIKE CLUSTERS (STAPHYLOCOCCI).
MATCH THE FOLLOWING:
1. BACILLI
2. COCCI
3. VIBRIO
4. SPIRILLUM
5. SPIROCHETES

A. COMA
B. FLEXOUS SPIRAL FORM
C. RIGID SPIRAL FORM
D. ROD SHAPED
E. SPHERICAL SHAPED