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enterococcus
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en·ter·o·coc·cus  (nt-r-kks)
n. pl. en·ter·o·coc·ci (-kks, -kk)
A usually nonpathogenic streptococcus that inhabits the intestine.
enter·o·coccal adj.


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These samples were analyzed in a nearby mobile laboratory for six microbiological parameters: Escherichia coli [International Standardization Organization (ISO) 1998b], intestinal enterococci (ISO 1998a), Clostridium perfringens (Council of the European Union 1998), somatic coliphages (ISO 2000), aeromonads (Schulze 1996), and pyocyanine-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Deutches Institut fur Normung, European Normalization 2002).
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