micrococcus
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When grown in organic infusions out of the animal body the anthrax-germ develops from micrococcus or bacillus into a long, branching, filamentous product, which in the presence of oxygen develops into spores.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 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)
Under observation, pale, finely-granular micrococcus balls developed and changed very quickly to bacteria, which moved about very actively.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
All these terms, including the usual one of bacteria, are unsatisfactory; for "bacterium," "bacillus" and "micrococcus" have narrow technical meanings, and the other terms are too vague to be scientific.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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