gonococcus
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Over the years, however, as the gonococcus has buffed up its defenses to antibiotics, doctors have had to prescribe higher and higher doses to combat it.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2011
The gonococcus has been resisting treatments and vying for superbug status for thousands of years.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2011
These, fortunately, include most of the bacteria which cause acute infections: the pneumococcus, more than half the streptococci, meningococcus, gonococcus and the spirochete of syphilis.
From Time Magazine Archive
So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most striking illustrations is the gonococcus of gonorrhœa, whose presence in and around gives to the pus cells their virulent properties, and when transferred to the eye works such lamentable mischief.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various
When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the new detection method described by Dr. Brown, the gonococci are made fluorescent and visible through a microscope under ultraviolet light only a few minutes after a smear is taken from a patient.
From Time Magazine Archive
In recent years some gonococci strains with a measure of resistance had emerged, but even those stubborn bacteria eventually succumbed to still bigger dosages of the antibiotic.
From Time Magazine Archive
He suggests that the gonococci incorporated bits of the master molecule DNA containing the genetic instructions for making the enzyme from other kinds of microbes that already have these genes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although this variety of conjunctivitis is principally due to infection by gonococci, other microbes, which more frequently set up a catarrhal type, may lead to the purulent form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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