.healthyswimming.or. g. Protecting swimmers and their families from RWIs. is the reason that pool staff regularly check. both chlorine and pH levels. Chlorine and pH, your disinfection team, are the first defense. against germs that can make swimmers sick.
[kokâ²És] pl. cocci. Etymology: Gk, kokkos, berry. a bacterium that is round, spheric, or oval, such as gonococcus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus, and streptococcus. coccal, adj.
The pyogenic cocci are spherical bacteria that cause various suppurative (pus-producing) infections in animals. Included are the Gram-positive cocci Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the Gram-negative cocci, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis.