micrococcus
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What is remarkable is that animals inoculated with the attenuated micrococcus become for a varying length of time refractory to the action of the most formidable parasites of this kind.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various
The nitrifying organism has been submitted as yet to but little microscopical study; it is apparently a micrococcus.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
They are found almost indiscriminately in any of these wound infections, and none of them appears to have any definite relation to any special form of disease unless it be the micrococcus of erysipelas.
From The Story of Germ Life by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)
Note M. agilis is the only micrococcus showing flagella.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
For example, the original mixed cultivation when examined microscopically was found to contain a Gram positive micrococcus, a Gram positive straight bacillus and a Gram negative short bacillus.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
Instead, he extends only his little finger, thus exposing a minimum of his person to bacilli and micrococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could not be identified as micrococci, while in the tissue they are more recognizable.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The contents of erysipelatous vesicles containing no micrococci excited no morbid manifestations.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Klebs inoculated the micrococci in pigeons and dogs, and found them in the blood of the animals after death.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
In microscopic preparations of the diseased placenta he was able to recognize numerous short bacilli and micrococci.
From Contagious Abortion of Cows by MacNeal, Ward J.
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