The general name for spherical bacteria is cocci. They can be singular (cocci), diplococci (two) or a string (streptococci).
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The bacterium that causes the black death is Yersinia pestis. It is a type of bacillus, which is a rod-shaped bacterium.
Diploococci meningitidisis a round bacterium that typically occurs in the form of two joined cells
The bacterium that causes fire blight in plants is called Erwinia amylovora.
Coccus (singular)cocci (plural)spherical is cocci that form a chain is streptococci (responsible for strep throat)group or cluster- staphylococci (responsible for boils, skin infection and endocarditis)
Bacteria is the plural form of bacterium. Bacterium refers to a single bacterium, while bacteria refers to multiple bacteria.