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Why use fluorescence microscopy for bacillus anthracis?

April 26, 2017anthracis bacillus fluorescence microscopy

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Why use fluorescence microscopy for bacillus anthracis?

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Perhaps fluorescence would be used because B. athracis has a cell wall making it difficult to visualize the details of the cytoplasm by simple bright field microscopy. Flourescence allows for labeling of specific entities, and “cold” illunimation of those entities against a dark field.