.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.
Confidence votes 236. Spherical shape bacteria are called cocci (singular coccus). Sometimes the cocci occur in clusters eg. Staphyloccus; sometimes in chains eg. Streptococcus; sometimes a diplococci eg.Neisseria; sometimes a tetrad eg.Sarcina.occi bacteria is the plural form of coccus bacteria. The term  coccus in microbiology simply means round or spherical in shape.