micrococci

In shape bacteria are round, or rod-shaped, or spiral; the round forms are called micrococci, the rod-shaped bacilli and the spiral forms are called spirilli.

Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman

Note the locomotive activity of M. agilis and the Brownian movement of the remaining micrococci.

The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

The author has endeavored to ascertain what agents are able to destroy the spores of bacilli, how they behave toward the microphytes most easily destroyed, such as the moulds, ferments, and micrococci, and if they suffice at least to arrest the development of these organisms in liquids favorable to their multiplication.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

I distinguish, further, in this group, two genera -- the microsporina and the monadina; in the former of which the micrococci are collected into spherical lumps, in the latter into layers.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881 Various

The former are called bacteria, or staff-like bodies; the latter, micrococci.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various

The existence of ciliated micrococci together with the formation of endospores -- structures not known in the Cyanophyceae -- reminds us of the flagellate Protozoa, _e. g.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

In the case of the simplest and most minute Schizomycetes [v. 03 p. 0162] (_Micrococcus_, &c.) no definite spores have been discovered; any one of the vegetative micrococci may commence a new series of cell by growth and division.

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We should at once conclude that the bacteria and micrococci must exist in the air, perhaps not in the state in which we find them in the water, but that their germs or eggs are floating in the atmosphere.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various

He proceeded in the main on the assumption that the forms of bacteria as met with and described by him are practically constant, at any rate within limits which are not wide: observing that a minute spherical micrococcus or a rod-like bacillus regularly produced similar micrococci and bacilli respectively, he based his classification on what may be considered the constancy of forms which he called species and genera.

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The cotton wool prevents it; for we may boil the water with the meat in it, but it would not be long before bacteria and micrococci are present if the wool is not put in the mouth of the test tube.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 Various