FOR KATY S.L. Thank you to Glen C. McGugan Jr. Ph.D Program Officer National Institute of Alergy and Infectious Diseases Parasitology and International Programs Branch Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and to Robert A. Levine MD Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine Yale School of Medicine for reviewing this book for accuracy and sharing their insights
LOOK OUT There's something on this page that can make you sick It's huge it's brightly colored IT'S A GERM In real life germs are itty bitty way too small for you to see even with a magnifying glass So what exactly are they E. coli 3
bacteria Germs are tiny things that can live on or inside your body and cause disease These microscopic monsters are hard to imagine because we can't see them But with special magnifying equipment and some dye to make their parts show up we can Who would have imagined they would be so interesting and beautiful to look at protozoa 4
Four types of germs cause illness BACTERIA PROTOZOA FUNGI and VIRUSES Do you want to see what they look like really really close up fungi virus 6
