50 Examples of Microscopic Organisms

The microscopic organisms (also called microorganisms) are the living beings smallest that inhabit the planet, those that can only be seen through a microscope. They are organisms endowed with individuality whose biological organization, unlike the animals and the plants, is elemental and in many cases only has one cell. For example: paramecium, poxvirus, escherichia coli.

Between the features of microorganisms appear the possibility of rapid metabolic reactions (transported very quickly by membranes and diffusing into cells), and also rapidly reproduce, in some cases dividing every twenty minutes.

Also, precisely because of this fast playback, alter the environment that surrounds them through sudden and rapid changes due to the elimination of waste from cellular metabolism: in this same sense, develop modes of resistance that make them survive great depths in sediments, hundreds of meters and millions of years buried.

The world around us is largely made up of microorganisms, but these were only recently discovered when they began to work with magnifying glasses or microscopes in different areas of work scientific.

Some of them meet a symbiotic function with the host beings that host them (as is the case of the bacteria intestinal tract) while others, in the opposite sense, are harmful to health (such as viruses that produce a response in the immune system).

Types of microscopic organisms

Microorganisms that are capable of penetrating and multiplying in other living beings that they harm are called pathogenic microorganisms. They are divided into three groups:

The immune system it is the body's natural defense against infection. Through a series of steps, this system fights and destroys invading infectious organisms before they cause harm, many of which are microscopic organisms. Both the elderly and the very young are more easily attacked by these microscopic organisms, since the immune system is weakened.

Examples of microscopic organisms

1. Paramecium (they move through short structures like small hairs)
2. Herpes simplex virus - cold sore (virus)
3. Staphylococcus aureus
4. Colpoda
5. Myxovirus Mumps (causes mumps)
6. Falvobacterium aquatile
7. Proteus mirabilis (urinary tract infection)
8. Variola virus (generates Smallpox)
9. Didinium
10. Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (used to make wines, breads, and beers)
11. Blepharocorys
12. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
13. Rotavirus (causes diarrhea)
14. Ascetosporea that is characterized by inhabiting marine invertebrates.
15. Beta hemolytic streptococci (tonsillitis)
16. Giardia lamblia (Protozoan microorganisms)
17. Balantidium
18. Poxvirus (causes molluscum contagiosum disease)
19. Streptococcus pneumoniae (causes pneumonia)
20. Yeasts (fungi)
21. H1N1 (virus)
22. Coccidia that frequent the intestines of animals
23. Schizotrypanum
24. Toxoplasma Gondii, which is transmitted by undercooked red meat.
25. Poliovirus (Poliomyelitis)
26. Amoebas (protozoan microorganisms)
27. Bacillus thuringiensis
28. Entodinium
29. Haemophilus influenzae (causes meningitis)
30. Eimeria (characteristic of rabbits)
31. Salmonella typhi
32. Enterobacter aerogenes
33. Chloroflexus aurantiacus
34. Papilloma virus - warts (virus)
35. Herpes simplex (herpes simplex)
36. Azotobacter chroococcum
37. Molds (fungi)
38. Rhinovirus - flu (virus)
39. Pediastrum
40. Rodospirillum rubrum
41. Varicella Zoster Virus (Varicella)
42. Paramecia (Protozoan microorganisms)
43. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
44. Plomarium Malarie (transmitted by the bite of a mosquito).
45. Hemosporidia (live in red blood cells)
46. Volvox
47. Human immunodeficiency virus - AIDS (virus)
48. Clostridium tetani
49. Escherichia coli - Produces diarrhea (bacteria)
50. Arbovirus (encephalitis)

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