Diplococcus

Wolf, watching a naked child defecate on a pile of garbage, recalled reading a city Health Services report - quickly suppressed by the mayor's office - that found the number of colonies of pathogenic micro-organisms like diplococcus, staph, amoeba and salmonella per cubic metre here to be completely off the measurement scale. ❋ Lustbader, Eric Van (1992)

Other types of bacteria found in milk and cheese include monococcus, diplococcus, tetracoccus, streptococcus, staphilococcus, lactobacillus and bacterial propionicas. ❋ Unknown (1989)

For instance, not a few healthy noses and throats contain the bacillus of diphtheria and the diplococcus of pneumonia. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

Prolonged and excessive exposure to cold may be the match that fires the mine, but we are absolutely certain that two other things are necessary, namely, the presence of the diplococcus, and a lowered and somewhat vitiated state of bodily resistance, due to age, overwork, underfeeding, or over-indulgence in alcohol. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

The clinical features are similar to those of acute general lepto-meningitis, and in sporadic cases the diagnosis is only completed by discovering the diplococcus intracellularis in the fluid withdrawn by lumbar puncture. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The organisms most frequently associated with these conditions are the staphylococcus aureus and the streptococcus, but it is not uncommon to meet with mixed infections in which other bacteria are present -- particularly the pneumococcus, the bacillus fœtidus, the bacillus coli, the bacillus pyocyaneus, and the diplococcus intracellularis. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

Organisms also are present, such as the diplococcus intracellularis in acute cerebro-spinal meningitis; staphylococci, streptococci, and pneumococci, particularly in the intra-cranial complications of middle ear disease. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

_ -- This form of meningitis, which is due to the _diplococcus intracellularis_, may occur sporadically, but is more frequently met with in an epidemic form. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The absence of the diplococcus intracellularis helps to differentiate the disease from cerebro-spinal meningitis, which it may closely simulate. ❋ Alexander Miles (1893)

The infecting organism is the diplococcus bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is negative on ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the foregoing illustration it has been assumed that complete acquired active immunity has been conferred upon the experimental rabbit in consequence of the formation of antibody, specific to the diplococcus pneumoniac, sufficient in amount to ensure the destruction of enormous doses of the living cocci -- the _antigen_ (that is the substance injected in response to which _antibody_ has been elaborated) in this particular case being the bacterial protoplasm of the pneumococcus with its endo-toxins. ❋ Unknown (N/A)