Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of rod shaped bacteria (orange) clustered on the point of a syringe needle used to administer injections.

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Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of rod shaped bacteria (orange) clustered on the point of a syringe needle used to administer injections. At this magnification the tip of the needle is seen to be bent with a clump of bacteria growing in the curve. This is the fourth in a series of pictures at regularly increasing magnifications. Magnification: x560 at 35mm size.

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Photo credit: © DR TONY BRAIN/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: bacteria, bacterial, bacteriology, bacterium, contaminated, contamination, equipment, hypodermic, medical, micro-organisms, microbe, microbes, microbiology, needle, point, sem, syringe