What's the difference between cocci and coccus?

Cocci


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Coccus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Concerning species isolated from the blood, gram-positive cocci were isolated more frequently than gram-negative bacteria, and Staphylococcus epidermidis was the most common species.
  • (2) Minimal bactericidal concentrations for gram-positive cocci approximated the minimal inhibitory concentrations.
  • (3) These antimicrobial agents are very active against gram-positive organisms, including MRSA and appear to be potent agents against infections due to gram-positive cocci, particularly MRSA.
  • (4) MicroScan (Baxter Healthcare Corp., West Sacramento, Calif.) has recently developed a microdilution system for identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing of gram-positive cocci.
  • (5) Patients who developed new infection with gram-negative bacilli had fever, in contrast to patients with new gram-positive cocci infection.
  • (6) The weak correlation obtained with the probe for ANT(6) was due to the fact that gram-positive cocci can also be streptomycin resistant by synthesis of APH(3") or ANT(3")(9) and by ribosomal mutation.
  • (7) "Corncob" configurations consisting of filamentous bacteria surrounded by Gram-positive cocci, and "bristle brush" formations comprising corncobs surrounded by long rods were observed in the superficial layer of the plaque.
  • (8) The numbers of spirochaetes, other motile microorganisms, non-motile filaments, rods or cocci and of granulocytes, monocytes and epithelial cells were determined.
  • (9) Of these 38% were Gram-positive rods, 27% Gram-positive cocci, 28% Gram-negative rods and 7% were Gram-negative cocci.
  • (10) The half of isolated cocci was Enterococcus, followed by S. epidermidis and S. aureus.
  • (11) The experimental-clinical investigations have demonstrated the high effectiveness of the native preparation Nitazole against the Gram-negative non-spore-forming anaerobic bacteria, Gram-positive anaerobic cocci, spore-forming Clostridium, certain facultative anaerobes.
  • (12) (23 patients), other gram-negative bacilli (five patients), staphylococci (19 patients), other gram-positive cocci (seven patients), and Rickettsia conorii (five patients).
  • (13) Anaerobes, mainly gram-positive cocci, were recovered from a quarter of ear aspirates in acute otitis media in about one third mixed with aerobic and facultative bacteria.
  • (14) The activity of CI-934, a new carboxy-quinolone antibiotic, against gram-positive cocci and bacilli and gram-negative bacilli was compared with that of reference antibiotics.
  • (15) Gram-positive cocci and gram-negative bacilli were found in equal numbers, with a definite increasing trend of gram-negative bacilli over the last 4 years.
  • (16) 80% of the cases showed Leptothrix alone or together wihh lactobacilli or cocci.
  • (17) These data do not support the hypothesis that the R determinants were acquired recently from a single common origin and suggest an easy exchange of genetic information among the Gram-positive cocci.
  • (18) Gram-negative bacilli were the most common isolates from the bloodstream of dogs with bacteremia (46%), and gram-positive cocci and anaerobic bacteria were isolated from 36% and 31% of positive cultures, respectively; 15% of positive cultures were polymicrobial.
  • (19) In most centers, gram-positive cocci have become the most common isolates.
  • (20) In the anaerobic microflora, the numbers of cocci, clostridia and bacteroides were suppressed while there were minor changes in the numbers of bifidobacteria.

Coccus


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the separable carpels of a dry fruit.
  • (n.) A genus of hemipterous insects, including scale insects, and the cochineal insect (Coccus cacti).
  • (n.) A form of bacteria, shaped like a globule.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additionally, the results obtained with OK-432 were most the same as those with HSu-coccus in these respects.
  • (2) A greater amount of these PBPs was secreted by both L forms than by the coccus.
  • (3) A methane-dependent coccus, with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria.
  • (4) Upon starvation, Ant-300, a psychrophilic marine vibrio, was observed to decrease in size and change in shape from a rod to a coccus.
  • (5) RodA and rodB mutations cause rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis cells to become coccus-shaped when the growth temperature is increased from 30 to 45 degrees C. At 30 degrees C four rod strains sporulated as well as the genetically closely related rod+ strains.
  • (6) Veillonella alcalescens ATCC 17745, a strictly anaerobic, gram-negative small coccus, requires putrescine or cadaverine for growth (M. B. Ritchey, and E. A. Delwiche, J. Bacteriol.
  • (7) Average rod-coccus ratios obtained at 37, 42, and 45 degrees C were 1:2.2, 1:8, and 1:2.4, respectively.
  • (8) The two largest PBPs (PBPs 1 and 2) of the coccus were absent in both L forms, while the smallest PBPs (PBPs 5 and 6) were found in all three membranes.
  • (9) Between 75 and 95% of the mutants isolated from the species that formed rods when septum formation was inhibited by antibiotics but none of those isolated from the others underwent coccus-to-rod transition upon incubation at the nonpermissive temperature.
  • (10) Gemella haemolysans, a coccus related to the "Streptococcaceae", was isolated from the blood of a patient with endocarditis.
  • (11) When beta-lactam antimicrobial agents (such as AMPC and CFIX) with no PAE against the gram-negative rods were tested, the ERT of the gram-negative rods were about two hours shorter than that of the gram-positive coccus.
  • (12) When new quinolone antimicrobial agents (such as OFLX) and aminoglycosides (such as ISP) that possess PAE against both the gram-positive and negative organisms were used there was no difference between ERT of the gram-negative rods and gram-positive coccus.
  • (13) Five patients with annular infection at the active phase had a shorter duration from the infectious onset to operation (20 days to 2 months, average 38 days), and the causative microorganisms were streptococcus faecalis, staphylococcus epidermidis and gram-negative coccus.
  • (14) They were 834 strains of gram-positive coccus (32.5%).
  • (15) Two patients are described with occupational asthma due to carmine, a natural dye extracted from the insect Coccus cactus.
  • (16) Temperature shift experiments and ultrastructural data indicated that coccus-shaped cells were unable to form prespore septa and were, therefore, inhibited at stage 0 of sporulation.
  • (17) Fluorescent antibody and ELISA studies have shown that both patients developed an antibody response to this anaerobic coccus soon after the replacement operation.
  • (18) In the absence of trypsin (which activates a latent form of the autolysin), autolysis of LOG walls appeared to start at the equatorial bands and to proceed back towards the apex of the coccus.
  • (19) These strains displayed the rod-coccus growth cycle and contained mesodiaminopimelic acid, mycolic acids, and tuberculostearic acids.
  • (20) On the 7th day after injection of HSu-coccus, about 90% of the peritoneal cells was lymphocytes, and 70% of these lymphocytes was susceptible to rabbit anti mouse thymus cell serum or to AKR anti thetaC3H serum.

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