Streptococcus Synonyms

strĕptə-kŏkəs
Spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. streptococci
  2. strep

Words Related to Streptococcus

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. meningococcus
  2. pyogenes
  3. beta-haemolytic
  4. corynebacterium
  5. streptococcal
  6. staphylococcus
  7. meningococci
  8. klebsiella
  9. neisseria
  10. clostridium
  11. pneumoniae
  12. clostridia
  13. mycoplasma
  14. enterobacteriaceae

Streptococcus Sentence Examples

  • Other common causative organisms include other Gram-negative aerobes, Streptococcus spp. and anaerobes.

  • Culture of throat and arm swabs from the donors of this unit did not isolate any group B streptococcus.

  • The foam inside the camera was found to have a strain of the bacterium streptococcus mitis still living inside it.

  • Streptococcus tends to manifest itself with skin erosions and pustular lesions.

  • Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause, accounting for nearly 40% of infections.

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