gonococci
- plural of gonococcus.
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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.
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When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci.
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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.
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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.
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Pyogenic Diseases are met with in childhood and youth as a result of infection with the common pyogenic organisms, gonococci, pneumococci, or typhoid bacilli.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
