Diplococci is plural. Diplococcus is singular.
the morphology of neisseria is diplococci
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You can also get by being un sanitary.
It is gonorrhea that is a diplococcus, not chlamydia.
Many of them, like gonorrhea, are contagious.
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Dogs can get a diplococci infection such as meningitis from an infected carrier through the transmission of fluids. Animals with weakened or immature immune systems being at the greatest risk.
Gram negative diplococci cause chlamydia and gonorrhea. Gram positive cause pneumonia.
A sphere shaped bacterium is a coccus, the plural is cocci. Cocci can appear singly, or in twos (diplococci), as a chain (streptococci), or in clusters like a bunch of grapes (staphylococci.)
Staphylococci, Streptococci, tetrads, Diplococci