Usage examples (6)

• Other types of bacteria found in milk and cheese include monococcus, diplococcus, tetracoccus, streptococcus, staphilococcus, lactobacillus and bacterial propionicas.
• The infecting organism is the diplococcus bacteria Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which is negative on
• For instance, not a few healthy noses and throats contain the bacillus of diphtheria and the diplococcus of pneumonia.
• The absence of the diplococcus intracellularis helps to differentiate the disease from cerebro-spinal meningitis, which it may closely simulate.