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diplococcus (plural diplococci) is a
round bacterium (a coccus) that
typically occurs in the form of two
joined cells.
Examples of gram-negative diplococci...
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Sternberg and the
French chemist Louis Pasteur. The
organism was
termed Diplococcus pneumoniae from 1920
because of its
characteristic appearance in Gram-stained...
- is a fastidious, nonmotile, Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive
diplococcus that can
cause infections of the
respiratory system,
middle ear, eye...
- particular,
meningococcus (Neisseria meningitidis), a Gram-negative
diplococcus organism,
releases endotoxin when it lyses.
Endotoxin activates the Hageman...
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referred to as a
coccus because it is round, and more specifically, a
diplococcus because of its
tendency to form pairs.
About 10% of
adults are carriers...
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inhabitant found in the
human upper respiratory tract. It is a gram-negative
diplococcus. It
produces a
positive result of blue when put
through the
oxidase test...
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respiratory infections caused by
Streptococcus pneumoniae (formerly
Diplococcus pneumoniae) Skin and soft
tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus...
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versicolor can grow on and
metabolize naturally occurring coal. The
bacteria Diplococcus has been
found to
degrade coal,
raising its temperature. Coal is the...
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McDonnell M,
Ronda C,
Tomasz A (1975) “Diplophage”: a
bacteriophage of
Diplococcus pneumoniae.
Virology 63:577–582 NCBI:
Streptococcus phage Dp-1 (species)...
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Moraxella bovis is a Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive
diplococcus implicated in
infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, an eye
disease of cattle...