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  • n  the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea

  • In gonorrhea victims, it is caused by the gonococcus bacterium.
  • Ever since penicillin's potency against the gonococcus was discovered, health experts have hoped it would eventually provide a quick treatment that a doctor could give in his office.
  • So far sulfanilamide has had no remarkable effect on diseases produced by bacteria other than the streptococcus, men-ingococcus, pneumococcus, or gonococcus.

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