A diplococcus (plural diplococci) is a round bacterium (a coccus) that typically occurs in the form of two joined cells. Examples of gram-negative diplococci...
is a fastidious, nonmotile, Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus that can cause infections of the respiratory system, middle ear, eye...
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...
particular, meningococcus (Neisseria meningitidis), a Gram-negative diplococcus organism, releases endotoxin when it lyses. Endotoxin activates the Hageman...
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...
Sternberg and the French chemist Louis Pasteur. The organism was termed Diplococcus pneumoniae from 1920 because of its characteristic appearance in Gram-stained...
McDonnell M, Ronda C, Tomasz A (1975) "Diplophage": a bacteriophage of Diplococcus pneumoniae. Virology 63:577–582 NCBI: Streptococcus phage Dp-1 (species)...
cocci (a spherical bacterial cell) divide into diplococcus or streptococcus arrangement. A diplococcus is a pair of cocci cells that can form chains,...
require a new genus. The name was suggested based on the organism being a diplococcus and gemellus is the diminutive of geminus, which is Latin for twin. They...
Neisseria lactamica is a gram-negative diplococcus bacterium. It is strictly a commensal species of the nasopharynx. Uniquely among the Neisseria they...
1887, Anton Wiechselbaum identified the meningococcus (designated as Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis) in cerebrospinal fluid and established...
model of twitching motility. Cells (such as the shown N. gonorrhoeae diplococcus) extend pili (green) that attach themselves to locations in the surrounding...
the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, a bacterium he named Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis. He conducted important research involving...
Later, Avery concluded that a protein determines the specificity of Diplococcus pneumoniae after he observed that the active protein was the same for...
empyema, endocarditis, and sepsis. These bacteria are gram-negative and diplococcus, rendering them virtually indistinguishable from the other Neisseria...
tests and supplemental tests. Neisseria polysacchareais a Gram-negative diplococcus, catalase positive, culturable bacteria. It has been identified as being...
fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative diplococcus (also referred to as "Gonococcus") and a pathogenic bacteria. In 2019...
against gram positive bacteria, namely the strains Staphylococcus aureus, Diplococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes. However, despite inhibition these...
moieties of glycoproteins. Purification and properties of the enzyme from Diplococcus pneumoniae". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 249 (15): 4897–904...
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