bacteria can be arranged in a chinese letter pattern known as
Corynebacterium The principal features of the Corynebacterium genus were described by Collins and Cummins in 1986.[6] They are gram-positive, catalase-positive, nonspore-forming, nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria that are straight or slightly curved.[7] Metachromatic granules are usually present representing stored phosphate regions. Their size falls between 2 and 6 μms in length and 0.5 μm in diameter. The bacteria group together in a characteristic way, which has been described as the form of a "V", "palisades", or "Chinese letters". They may also appear elliptical. They are aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, chemoorganotrophs. They are pleomorphic through their lifecycles, they occur in various lengths, and they frequently have thickenings at either end, depending on the surrounding conditions.[8]