bacteria

Teaches children the basic hygiene of cleanliness and explains how they can avoid spreading germs.

Pamela learns about germs and how to avoid them by practicing good hygiene.

This book describes scientists' discoveries of microbes (germs), including how they spread; how some of them cause diseases, and how medicines are used to control these diseases.

This book describes the pioneering work of germ detectives, scientists such as Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Marcello Malpighi, Ignaz Semmelweis, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Alexander Fleming.

Examines the characteristics of simple plants that do not have seeds, including algae, fungi, lichen, mosses, and ferns, with a brief look at bacteria.

Discusses various types of bacteria and viruses, methods of fighting diseases, and how bacteria and viruses can be used to benefit people and the environment.

Traces the history of man's study of bacteria, and discusses what is currently known about bacteria, viruses, and innoculations against specific diseasecausing germs.

Presents disgusting facts designed to appeal to children.

Examines diseases and illness that can be obtained through microscopic viruses, bacteria, and germs; and describes the three types of bacteria and how to prevent viruses such as the common cold, herpes, HIV, and more.

Contains poems about both helpful and harmful germs, each followed by facts about the featured germ and an electron micrograph. Includes a glossary.