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Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

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This is an electron microscope image of a bacterial cell. Injection apparatuses (shown in red) stick out from the cell and extend across the cell wall (shown here in yellow and blue).

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University of Basel / Mikhail Kudryashev

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