(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.
Micrococcus
Definition:
(n.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paracoccus (Micrococcus) denitrificans and Escherichia coli oxidizing succinate rapidly ceased to reduce nitrate when oxygen was available, and equally rapidly commenced nitrate reduction when all the oxygen had been consumed.
(2) In Micrococcus sodonensis and some other Micrococcus species, adenosien deaminase is present both as a membran-bound and a soluble enzyme; The membran-bound adenosine deaminase can be extracted with n-butanol, and may account for up to 5% of the total cellular adenosine deaminase activity.
(3) An ecological study of Micrococcus radiodurans indicated that microorganisms possessing the same morphological and radiation-resistance characteristics as that organism could be isolated from ground beef and from pork sausage.
(4) However, the most promising antibiotic regimen proposed for treatment of Micrococcus luteus seems to be a combination of vancomycin, amikacin, and rifampicin.
(5) Dried preparations with Streptococcus faecium, strain A(2)1, and spores of Bacillus sphaericus, strain C(I)A, normally used for control of the microbiological efficiency of radiation sterilization plants and preparations with spores of Bacillus subtilis, normally used for control of sterilization by dry heat, formalin, and ethylene oxide, as well as similar preparations with Micrococcus radiodurans, strain R(1), and spores of Bacillus globigii (B. subtilis, var.
(6) A phylogenetic tree constructed from the sequences of these bacteria and published sequences indicated that the coryneform bacteria consist of a distinct eubacterial branch together with Streptomyces and Micrococcus spp.
(7) Antibacterial activity was tested on Micrococcus Pyogenes strain ATTC 6538P by disc agar diffusion technique using nonactivated pancreatic juice, before and after heat treatment for 15 min at 65 and 100 degrees C, respectively.
(8) All 132 strains of Staphylococcus tested inactivated phage U16 significantly, whereas of 123 strains of Micrococcus tested, only three strains of Micrococcus candicans were able to adsorb this staphylococcal phage.
(9) No decrease of antibacterial activity of sera was found in vitro after the addition of NAC or the related thiol glutathione, employing micrococcus luteus and staphylococcus aureus as indicator organisms.
(10) Log phase cells of Micrococcus lysodeikticus (luteus) IFO 3333 autolyzed when incubated at 37 C in 0.01 M sodium-phosphate buffer pH 7.5.
(11) Lysozyme was not demonstrated in the isolated protein fractions in assays involving incubation with Micrococcus lysodeikticus for 90 min.
(12) Effect of cyclopeptide antibiotic gramicidin S on some enzymes and physical state of isolated Micrococcus lysodeikticus membranes is studied.
(13) No macroscopic infection with pus formation occurred, while Micrococcus varians was cultured from each inoculated implant.
(14) Poly(GlcNAc-1-phosphate) and LU synthesis in Micrococcus varians, with endogenous lipid acceptor, UDP-GlcNAc and CDP-glycerol, was stimulated by UDP-ManNAc.
(15) Dried bacteria, Micrococcus denitrificans, in which TdR in DNA was partially substituted by BUdR, were subjected to mono-energetic X-rays of energies below or above the K-edge for Br.
(16) Recovered organisms included Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus epidermidis, diphtheroids, and Micrococcus.
(17) Spermine inhibited the transport of neutral aliphatic amino acids (valine, leucine, isoleucine, alanine, and glycine) into cells of Micrococcus lysodeikticus.
(18) Colonies of Mycobacterium luteum and Micrococcus albus have also grown.
(19) The effect of white light on the malate oxidase of Sarcina lutea (Micrococcus luteus) membranes has been examined using a carotenoid-containing and a carotenoidless mutant.
(20) The murein structure of the different species and strains of Micrococcus, Staphylococcus, and Sarcina are compared.