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UK
/stɹˈɛptəkˌɒkəs/
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[ US /ˌstɹɛptəˈkɔkəs/ ]
[ US /ˌstɹɛptəˈkɔkəs/ ]
NOUN
- spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
How To Use streptococcus In A Sentence
- Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) has the ability to survive in a highly acidic environment, which is what makes it such a nasty tooth-decayer: remember, it’s the acid bacteria produce as they consume carbohydrates that eats away at tooth enamel. Paging all you "Face on Mars" believers...
- Royalisin, a protein in royal jelly, suppresses certain types of bacteria including staphylococcus and streptococcus.
- Unlike Streptococcus pneumoniae, group A beta-hemolytic streptococci have not developed resistance to penicillins.
- The bacteria concerned is most commonly a combination of Streptococcus salivarius and thermophilus, and a Lactobacillus such as acidophilus, bulgaricus or bifidus. Archive 2005-11-01
- Cockroaches have been implicated in cases of salmonella food poisoning, and they have also been found to harbor staphylococcus and streptococcus bacteria.
- Tooth decay is caused by acids in your mouth, typically created from sugar being metabolized by bacteria (Streptococcus mutans), and as you may already know, the number-one source of calories in the United States is high fructose corn syrup. Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Health Hazards of Water Fluoridation (VIDEO)
- An elevated titer indicates that a Streptococcus infection or poststreptococcal sequelae from a previous infection are present. Dr. Andrew Lange: What to Do if You Have Arthritis, Part One
- Objective To study the influence of length of polysaccharide(PS)fragment on the immunogenicity of Streptococcus pneumoniae type 18C polysaccharide(Pn18C)-tetanus toxoid(TT)conjugate.
- The target bacteria were those that have been challenged experimentally with the greatest number of spices, including such widespread species as Aeromonas hydrophila, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilus, Clostridium botulinum, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Salmonella pullorum, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus faecalis. Archive 2005-06-01
- The authors begin by noting that bacteriologists had proposed various classifications of the streptococcus genus and that strains that produced haemolysis of red blood cells were thought to constitute a single unit or group.