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Bacterium Often Causing Infection

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noun

• spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis

33%8Bacterium causing food poisoning
noun

• any species of the genus Listeria

33%4 Disease-causing bacterium
noun

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism

• a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

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