Bacteria are classified into different groups depending on their shape. There are five distinct bacterial shapes: spherical, rod, spiral, comma, and corkscrew. Bacteria, just like any other living ...

Instead of growing, the bacteria work to repair the damage and change so they can better tolerate antibiotics. As this happens, they change shape, becoming thin and elongated.

(c) How a bacterium determines and maintains its shape and dimensions ... cue, the basic premise of this Frontiers’ snapshot is existence of a necessary coupling between the only singular ...