streptococcus

Definitions

Agriculture

• noun a bacterium belonging to a genus that grows in long chains and causes diseases such as strangles and mastitis

Food

• (written as Streptococcus)
  A genus of bacteria used for the production of lactic acid in the manufacture of cheese and sauerkraut. Some of the species are pathogenic.

Medical

• noun a genus of bacteria which grows in long chains, and causes fevers such as scarlet fever, tonsillitis and rheumatic fever

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