micrococcus
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micrococci
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This disease is caused by a small micrococcus, the organisms joined in pairs.
From Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman
The fowl cholera micrococcus, which has been weakened as just mentioned, may be restored to its original violence by inoculating it into a small bird, like a sparrow, and inoculating a second bird from this.
From The Story of Germ Life by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn
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
To cite only those whose origin is well known, we may mention the bacterium that causes charbon, the micrococcus of chicken cholera, and that of hog measles.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various
A physician examined after death the body of a person who died from infection with a very virulent micrococcus and in the course of the examination slightly scratched a finger.
From Disease and Its Causes by William Thomas Councilman
Instead, he extends only his little finger, thus exposing a minimum of his person to bacilli and micrococci.
From Time Magazine Archive
Moreover, in the scrapings of the healthy tongue the same micrococci can be seen.
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 Ward J. MacNeal
The oval and spherical organisms described by Richard and Laveran as found in the blood of malarial patients resembled micrococci rather than bacilli.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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