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gonococcus /gono·coc·cus/ (-kok´us) pl. gonococ´ci   an individual of the species Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the etiologic agent of gonorrhea.gonococ´calgonococ´cic
gon·o·coc·cus (gn-kks)
n. pl. gon·o·coc·ci (-kks, -kk)
The bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is the causative agent of gonorrhea.
gono·coccal adj.
gonococcus
[gon′əkok′əs] pl. gonococci
Etymology: Gk, gone + kokkos, berry
a gram-negative intracellular diplococcus of the species Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the cause of gonorrhea; a nonmotile aerobic microorganism of the species N. gonorrhoeae. It is a parasite of the mucous membrane.
gonococcus [gon″o-kok´us] (pl. gonococ´ci.)
an individual of the species Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the etiologic agent of gonorrhea. adj., adj gonococ´cal.
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There is only a report of naturally occurring gonococci expressing a hybrid porB1a/porB1b (7) (PorBla and PorBlb gonococcus porins, as in meningococci, are encoded by 2 families of diverged alleles of the porB gene [8]).
PorB2/3 protein hybrid in Neisseria meningitidis by Abad, Raquel; Enriquez, Rocio; Salcedo, Celia; Vazquez, Julio A. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
4) In the 38 reviewed cases in which no pulmonic valvular abnormality was noted before infection, Staphylococcus aureus was the most common microorganism recovered from blood cultures (44%), followed by streptococci (13%), Streptococcus bovis (5%), gonococcus (5%), pseudomonas (5%), E.
Pulmonic valve endocarditis. (Case Report) by Islam, Najmul / Southern Medical Journal
I still can't tell my labiates from my nippleworts and I keep mixing up my spermatophytes with my gonococcus.
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