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    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...
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    is a fastidious, nonmotile, Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus that can cause infections of the respiratory system, middle ear, eye...
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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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    particular, meningococcus (Neisseria meningitidis), a Gram-negative diplococcus organism, releases endotoxin when it lyses. Endotoxin activates the Hageman...
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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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    Sternberg and the French chemist Louis Pasteur. The organism was termed Diplococcus pneumoniae from 1920 because of its characteristic appearance in Gram-stained...
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    possibility of creating a vaccine. Griffith used two strains of pneumococcus (Diplococcus pneumoniae) bacteria which infect mice – a type III-S (smooth) which...
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    It has been suggested that Diplococcus be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2023....
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    cocci (a spherical bacterial cell) divide into diplococcus or streptococcus arrangement. A diplococcus is a pair of cocci cells that can form chains,...
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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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  • 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...
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  • Neisseria lactamica is a gram-negative diplococcus bacterium. It is strictly a commensal species of the nasopharynx. Uniquely among the Neisseria they...
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  • "Characterization of an endo-alpha-N-acetyl galactosaminidase from Diplococcus pneumoniae". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 70 (3): 738–45. doi:10...
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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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    1887, Anton Wiechselbaum identified the meningococcus (designated as Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis) in cerebrospinal fluid and established...
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    the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, a bacterium he named Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis. He conducted important research involving...
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    model of twitching motility. Cells (such as the shown N. gonorrhoeae diplococcus) extend pili (green) that attach themselves to locations in the surrounding...
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    Later, Avery concluded that a protein determines the specificity of Diplococcus pneumoniae after he observed that the active protein was the same for...
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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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  • Lactobacillales Streptococcaceae "Babesia" Trevisan 1889 non Starcovici 1893 "Diplococcus" Weichselbaum 1886 non Enderlein 1917 non Flügge 1886 "Mogallia" Enderlein...
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  • Moraxella bovis, the pink eye, a Gram-negative, aerobic, oxidase-positive diplococcus bacterium species implicated in infectious keratoconjunctivitis in cattle...
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    empyema, endocarditis, and sepsis. These bacteria are gram-negative and diplococcus, rendering them virtually indistinguishable from the other Neisseria...
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    1974). "Role of a deoxyribonuclease in the genetic transformation of Diplococcus pneumoniae". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United...
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  • Stacey M, Hopton JW (1965). "Arrangement of the L-rhamnose units in Diplococcus pneumoniae type II polysaccharide". Carbohydr. Res. 1: 106–115. doi:10...
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    fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a gram negative diplococcus (also referred to as "Gonococcus") and a pathogenic bacteria. In 2019...
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    02600280026006. ISSN 0098-7484. Tunnicliff, Ruth (1936). "Opsonins for Diplococcus morbillorum and for Streptococcus scarlatinae in Convalescent Measles...
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  • 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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  • Ancorina cerebrum Schmidt, 1862 Ancorina corticata Lévi, 1964 Ancorina diplococcus Dendy, 1924 Ancorina geodides (Carter, 1886) Ancorina globosa Kelly &...
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  • family is a family of restriction endonucleases which includes DpnII from Diplococcus pneumoniae. These enzymes recognise the double-stranded DNA unmethylated...
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  • "Enzymic synthesis of a diamino sugar nucleotide by extracts of type XIV Diplococcus pneumoniae" (PDF). Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 116 (1): 466–78. doi:10...
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