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- noun Plural form of
staphylococcus .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections
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Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are '' good bacteria '' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation.
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Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are "good bacteria" when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation.
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Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are "good bacteria" when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation.
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Many viruses can be controlled with good vaccines -- a noted exception is HIV, which causes AIDS -- but vaccines are generally not effective against bacterial infections, such as staphylococci and streptococcus.
Antibiotics 2008
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In all general inflammation we may expect to find such organisms, which in most cases belong to the class of micrococci, such as staphylococci and streptococci.
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Organisms recovered included bacteria that are part of the normal skin flora such as staphylococci
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A bacterium that can cause serious infections in immune-weakened individuals, coagulase negative staphylococci, was found on 101 patient and visitor phones and 52 worker phones.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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A bacterium that can cause serious infections in immune-weakened individuals, coagulase negative staphylococci, was found on 101 patient and visitor phones and 52 worker phones.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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A bacterium that can cause serious infections in immune-weakened individuals, coagulase negative staphylococci, was found on 101 patient and visitor phones and 52 worker phones.
Years of Sitting on the Job Linked to Cancer Ann Lukits 2011
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Pathogenic staphylococci from the interior nares: incidence and differentiation.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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