Crossword-Solution: STAPHYLOCOCCI 13 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 27

When they divide irregularly, and form grape-like bunches, they are known as _staphylococci_, and to this variety the commonest pyogenic or pus-forming organisms belong (Fig.

The invading organism is usually one of the staphylococci, less frequently a streptococcus, and still less frequently one of the other bacteria capable of producing pus, such as the bacillus coli communis, the gonococcus, the pneumococcus, or the typhoid bacillus.

PYOGENIC DISEASES The commoner pyogenic diseases are the result of infection of one or other of the joint structures with _staphylococci_ or _streptococci_, which may be demonstrated in the exudate in the joint and in the substance of the synovial membrane.

Moreover, these sweat-ducts and hair-follicles will, as we have seen, frequently contain white staphylococci, which are at times capable of setting up a low grade of inflammation in the wound.

Which of the following microbes are the most active agents of progressive auto-infection: the streptococcus lanceolatus, the bacterium pyogenes, the bacillus subtilis, the staphylococci, the bacterium coli commune? They all play a part in the game, reducing the body in time to a charnel-house.