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MICROCOQUE [1 record]

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Record 1 2003-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Microbiology and Parasitology
DEF

A genus of gram-positive, catalase-positive, strictly aerobic cocci of the micrococcaceae; species occur as saprophytes and as parasites of animals, including man.

OBS

Medical bacteriologists often reserve the name staphylococcus for the potentially pathogenic Gram-positive, catalase-positive cocci, and use micrococcus for the saprophytes and commensals. This may be convenient but it is a practice to be avoided; the distinction between staphylococci and micrococci should be made (if at all) on scientific grounds, such as differences in the characters of the organisms, rather than on hypothetical pathogenicity or otherwise.

OBS

plural: micrococci.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Microbiologie et parasitologie
DEF

Bactérie de forme ronde, non ciliée et immobile, Gram positif, proche de staphylococcus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Microbiología y parasitología
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