[
UK
/stɹˈɛptəkˌɒkaɪ/
]
NOUN
- spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
How To Use streptococci In A Sentence
- Yes, not actually eating, but the alpha-streptococci emits a type of bactericide which kills the pathogenic bacteria.
- Unlike Streptococcus pneumoniae, group A beta-hemolytic streptococci have not developed resistance to penicillins.
- As the streptococci are now resistant to penicillin the treatment fails. Times, Sunday Times
- Streptococci readily gained access to the blood stream from this site of infection.
- Some were injected with streptococci, some with staphylococci, and some with Clostridium septique (the cause of braxy, a deadly sheep disease).
- Other agents occasionally implicated are pneumococci, staphylococci, streptococci, and Candida albicans.
- Other bacteria that commonly cause conjunctivitis include staphylococci, streptococci and haemophilus bacteria.
- Besides anthrax research, he focused on several other projects, including wound infections and micrococci in septicemic animals (later identified as streptococci and staphylococci).
- In many cases, these organisms are streptococci or staphylococci bacteria.
- Unlike staphylococci, which tend to cause localised infections such as abscesses, streptococci are essentially organisms that spread.
