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diplococci

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diplococci [‚dīp·lō′kä·kēor′käk·sī]
(microbiology)
A pair of micrococci.


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Colonies resembling meningococci were identified by conventional tests, and oxidase-positive, gram-negative diplococci were frozen and stored in duplicate as putative meningococci at -70[degrees]C.
meningitidis isolated from blood or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); meningococcal antigen or DNA detected in cerebrospinal fluid by latex agglutination or polymerase chain reaction; or gram-negative diplococci detected in cerebrospinal fluid, blood, or skin biopsy.
The next morning a chest x-ray shows infiltration in the right lower lung field, and the sputum culture shows gram-positive diplococci.
 
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