Word: diplococci
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...Cocci and diplococci have been recognized in cultures of tubercle bacilli for at least 15 years. They probably get there from the air, where they abound...
...attentive physicians what he had been doing to some tubercle bacilli. Culturing them in a sterile glycerin broth, he had added some sterile litmus milk, put the flask in a cupboard at room temperature. The deadly, rod-shaped bacilli slowly disappeared, transmuted into round-shaped bacteria called cocci and diplococci. These bacteria, he explained, produce an acid which destroys their progenitors...
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