What's the difference between coccus and gonococcus?
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.
Gonococcus
Definition:
(n.) A vegetable microorganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitute the cause of this disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct testing, using colonies of N. gonorrhoeae mixed with the Phadebact gonococcus test reagents, produced noninterpretable results in many cases.
(2) Although Neisseria gonorrhoeae can use haem as the sole exogenous iron source for growth in vitro, the mechanism of haem-iron uptake in the gonococcus is unknown.
(3) ), and the Phadebact Gonococcus coagglutination test (Pharmacia Diagnostics, Piscataway, N.J.) to identify pathogenic Neisseria spp.
(4) Transformation data indicated that MS11 does not produce enough restriction activity to block plasmid transformation in the gonococcus, even though restriction activity could be demonstrated in E. coli containing the cloned gene.
(5) Although antibodies raised to the pili protein from a given strain of gonococcus cross-reacted poorly or not at all with each of the other strains tested, the amino-terminal sequences were all identical.
(6) In cases of gonococcus, systemic antibiotic medication is required.
(7) The author concludes there is no need to procure VDRL tests on all patients with suspected gonorrhea, nor do gonococcus cultures on all patients with suspected PID.
(8) If released during gonococcal infections, similar soluble PG fragments might influence the consequences of host-gonococcus interactions.
(9) In addition to natural resistance a postinfection-acquired immunity to the gonococcus was demonstrated.
(10) Phase variation in both the gonococcus and E. coli was recA-independent, occurred at similar rates, and involved insertions or deletions of one or more repeat units.
(11) These results support the hypothesis that the absence in N. gonorrhoeae of plasmids carrying entire and functional TnA transposons cannot be ascribed to incompatibility between the genetic element and the host, but rather to a barrier to introduction of foreign DNA into gonococcus.
(12) Follow-up studies identified 5 cases of treatment failure; 2 of Gonococcus and 3 of Chlamydia, and detected 3 cases of Chlamydia which had not been identified initially.
(13) The eradication rate (efficacy rate) of gonococcus following a 3-day therapy was 96.2% (38.9% excellent cure rate) in male patients and 83.3% (8.3%) in female patients.
(14) I included the heat stable agglutinogens of the gonococcus, and antibodies of these could be raised by immunization of rabbits with the Fr.
(15) The two organisms may behave in clinically indistinguishable fashion and probably justify a more cautious approach to the clinical syndromes we have considered the inviolate domain of the gonococcus.
(16) Morphology and fermentative reactions of revertant strains were identical to those of the parent gonococcus.
(17) Several procedures have been suggested for providing adequate environmental conditions for the survival and growth of the gonococcus.
(18) The results showed how ineffective the previous treatment was in eliminating the gonococcus from the genital tract.
(19) In patients with endocervical gonorrhea, the gonococcus was isolated from the fallopian tube in 38.5 per cent of cases.
(20) The Phadebact gonococcus test was performed on 314 bacterial isolates to compare the coagglutination technique with the Minitek system for the confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.