streptococci

IPA: strɛptʌkˈɔtʃi

spherical gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

Examples of "streptococci" in Sentences

Would Miss Adelaide really say "streptococci," he asked?
As the streptococci are now resistant to penicillin the treatment fails.
He buys some penicillin and gives himself, not enough to kill the streptococci but enough to educate them to resist penicillin.
The trick is to inoculate one's self with a minute dose of the streptococci of existentialism—like a vaccination—before the fever sets in.
Benzylpenicillin is an antibiotic used to treat skin infections including group B streptococci, which is commonly known as strep B and can cause serious illness and death.
'This means organisms such as streptococci and staphylococci (even MRSA) can be transferred and cause infections like cellulitis (infection of the tissues below the skin).'
One of the most common complications of chickenpox occurs if a blister becomes infected with bacteria such as streptococci, the so-called "flesh-eating bacteria," that cause destruction of the muscles.
Group A streptococci are the pathogenic bacteria responsible for many acute human infections in the respiratory tract and skin including pharyngitis, impetigo, rheumatic fever, and acute glomerulonephritis
Techniques used include culture from a wide variety of specimens, special stains, direct antigen detection (Group A streptococci, Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Trichomonas vaginalis), molecular real-time PCR diagnostics, and toxin assays (Clostridium difficile and enterohemorrhagic E. coli).