This microscope slide collection includes samples of the most important pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria:

• Staphylococcus aureus, pus organism
• Sarcina lutea, chromogenic rods
• Streptococcus pyogenes, pus organism
• Streptococcus lactis, milk souring organism, short chains
• Bacillus subtilis, hay bacillus, smear with bacilli and spores
• Bacillus mycoides, soil organism
• Bacillus anthracis, wool sorters disease
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis
• Corynebacterium diphtheriae, causing diphtheria
• Bacterium erysipelatos, causing red murrain
• Rhizobium radicicola, nitrogen fixing bacteria in root nodules
• Proteus vulgaris, putrefaction
• Escherichia coli, colon bacteria
• Eberthella typhi, causing typhoid fever
• Salmonella paratyphi, causing paratyphoid fever
• Vibrio comma, Asiatic cholera
• Shigella dysenteriae, bacillary dysentery
• Hemophilus influenzae, Pfeiffer bacillus
• Spirillum volutans, from putrid water
• Rhodospirillum rubrum, chromogenic spirilli
• Clostridium botulinum (botulism), causing food poisoning, smear
• Spirochaeta duttoni (Borrelia recurrentis), in blood smear
• Bacteria from mouth, smear with Gram positive and negative rods
• Bacteria from bread
• Bacteria from cheese

This set of 25 slides is a great teaching tool and hands on addition to any biology classroom.