Staphylococcus:
A group of bacteria, familiarly known as Staph, that can > (and do) cause a multitude of diseases. The name comes from the Greek staphyle meaning a bunch of grapes + kokkos meaning berry, and that is exactly what Staph look like under the microscope, like a bunch of grape or little round berries. (In technical terms, these are gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, usually unencapsulated cocci). Staph can cause illness directly by infection or indirectly through products they make such as toxins responsible for food poisoning and toxic shock syndrome.
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