Macrococcus
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| Order: | Staphylococcales
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| Genus: | Macrococcus Kloos et al. 1998[1]
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| Macrococcus equipercicus Kloos et al. 1998
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Macrococcus, (from Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós), meaning "long", and κόκκος (kókkos), meaning "kernel" or "Kermes"[3][4]) is a genus of Gram-positive cocci belonging to the family Staphylococcaceae. The genus was created in 1998.[5]
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NCBIwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Beekes, Robert; van Beek, Lucien (2010). Lubotsky, Alexander (ed.). Etymological Dictionary Of Greek. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p. 733. ISBN 978 90 04 17418 4.
- ^ κόκκος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ^ Kloos, W. E., D. N. Ballard, C. G. George, J. A. Webster, R. J. Hubner, W. Ludwig, K. H. Schleifer, F. Fiedler, and K. Schubert. 1998. Delimiting the genus Staphylococcus through description of Macrococcus caseolyticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Macrococcus equipercicus sp. nov., and Macrococcus bovicus sp. nov, and Macrococcus carouselicus sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48:859-877