gonococcus
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gonococci
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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
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
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
It is not so discriminating as the gonococcus in its points of inoculation, nor is it as vulnerable to attack; and it is vastly more destructive to the tissues invaded.
From The Social Emergency Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals by William Trufant Foster
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
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
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
When the bacteriologists made careful germ cultures from their patients' specimens, they found that eleven men still harbored gonococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has been shown positively that acute endocarditis is due to micro-organisms, generally streptococci, staphylococci or pneumococci, and, more frequently than once believed, gonococci.
From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne
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