(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.