The bacteria Diplococcus has been found to degrade coal, raising its temperature.
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Neisseria lactamica is a gram-negative diplococcus bacterium.
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"Neisseria polysaccharea " is a Gram-negative diplococcus, catalase positive, culturable bacteria.
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The organism was termed " Diplococcus pneumoniae " from 1920 because of its characteristic appearance in streptococci.
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The name was suggested based on the organism being a diplococcus and gemellus is the diminutive of geminus, which is Latin for twin.
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In particular, meningococcus ( " Neisseria meningitidis " ), a Gram-negative diplococcus organism, releases endotoxin when it lyses.
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In 1887, he was the first to isolate the causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis, a bacterium he named " Diplococcus intracellularis meningitidis ".
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""'Moraxella bovis " "'is a Gram-negative, oxidase-positive diplococcus implicated in infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, an eye disease of cattle, also colloquially known as pinkeye or New Forest eye.