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What is a micrococcus?

What is a micrococcus? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (biology) Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless.
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Either kill the micrococcus or heal the wound, and you are free from both.
Staphylococcus, Micrococcus, and other catalase-positive cocci.
The cause of this luminosity is Micrococcus phosphorens, an immotile round, or almost round organism.
Then, the name of Staphylococcus was introduced by Ogston in 1883 for micrococcus group causing inflammation and suppuration.
Cocci exhibit this movement, but with the exception of the micrococcus agilis, the cocci are non-motile.
A specific micro-organism, the micrococcus melitensis, was discovered in 1887, and it was traced to the milk of the Maltese goats.

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