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Meaning of "cocci"

Coccus (noun): A term used in biology to refer to a spherical-shaped bacterium. This noun is commonly employed in scientific contexts for categorizing microorganisms with a specific morphology
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  • plural of coccus
  • coccidioidomycosis

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Observe microscopically for the presence of cocci.
Titers are high for cocci meningitis.
Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocci.
I see gram positive cocci in chains.
The fruit is a two to four cell dry cocci.
Cocci are often found in colonies.
Stain showed gram positive cocci.
All strains were gram positive cocci and appeared singly or in clusters.
They therefore can not be classified as rods or cocci.
In spite of their flagellation motile cocci were rarely observed.
The morphological characteristics is in a chain of spherical to ellipsoidal cocci.
Cocci may occur as single cells or remain attached following cell division.
The morphological characteristic is in a chain of spherical to ellipsoidal cocci.
Some pyogenic intracellular cocci also have the capacity to kill phagocytes.
Cells are curved rods or cocci.

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Structure for cocci may vary between gram positive and gram negative bacterial wall types.
A blood culture was positive for hard to grow gram positive cocci.
Growth of Gram positive cocci was observed which were identified as coagulase negative staphylococcus species.
When the fruits are mature each splits into three cocci.
The CDC also began investigating cocci cases far from traditionally endemic regions after the symposium.
Is made up of a chain of cocci.
Gram negative Cocci and Gram positive bacilli were uncommon.
Divisions in two or three planes can produce symmetrical clusters of cocci.
Tetracocci, cocci in the group of four cells.
It has antibacterial action against Escherichia coli and some cocci.
Gram-positive cocci in chains belong to what genu.
Lungs tested positive for Cocci.
Gram-positive cocci such as staphylococci and streptococci.
The culture results identified GRAM positive cocci.
Staphylococci are cocci arranged in irregular clusters, like a bunch of grapes.
O Spherical bacteria are called cocci.
Diplo refers to two cells, so diplococci are arrangements of cocci in pairs.
Anaerobic Gram positive cocci.
Gram-positive cocci are the most common etiologic agents.
Large numbers of evenly stained cocci and / or rods.
Both can cause coccidioidomycosis, also known as cocci or valley fever.
A peripheral blood sample revealed gram-positive cocci.
Immunostaining revealed positive, small cocci at various concentrations in all samples.
The very first shape is known as coccus, plural cocci.
Each of the cocci bears one seed enclosed in a 2 mm thick woody endocarp.
These large gram-positive aerobic cocci form tetrads and clusters.
Enterococci are gram-positive cocci that are normal inhabitants of the gastrointestinal tract.
The phylum contains organisms of a variety of shapes, including both rods and cocci.
In this case, the cocci already start to have harmful effects on human body.
He later offered to citizens and visitors eat cod, cocci and wine in abundance.
The e enterococci are gram-positive cocci that belong to the group of lactic acid bacteria lab.
In general, these bacterial genera are characterized by gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci.
It has a relatively broad effect against gram-positive cocci but not against enterobacteria.
Miconazole also has an antibacterial activity against some gram-positive bacilli and cocci.
An empirical antibiotic therapy against gram positive cocci was installed, then adapted to the antibiogram.

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