Smallest bacteria?

The smallest known bacteria belong to the type called phytoplasma.

Smallest bacteria?
The smallest known bacteria belong to the type called phytoplasma, which infect plants much as the mycoplasmas infect animals.





Many bacteria are shaped like a gelatin medicine capsule. One such organism, Haemophilus influenzae (it was once thought to cause influenza) is among the smallest bacteria: 0.2–0.3 by 0.5–2.0 micrometers, which is about the smallest object that can be seen through a light microscope. Escherichia coli, the bacteria used in testing water for fecal contamination, has a similar shape and is about 7 μm long and 1.8 μm in diameter.





Many bacteria are long and slender, only 1 or 2 μm wide but 10 to 20 μm long. For comparison, a human red blood cell is 8 μm in diameter.
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