%0 Journal Article %A Bisset, K. A. %T The Cytology of the Gram-positive Cocci %D 1948 %J Microbiology, %V 2 %N 2 %P 126-130 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-2-2-126 %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY: The long-chained and short-chained variants of Streptococcus pyogenes, Str. viridans and Str. faecalis possess a structure closely resembling that of rough and smooth bacillary variants. Cocci of the long-chained strains are frequently divided by transverse cell walls into two cells, each containing a single chromatinic body. Short-chained strains fail to form transverse cell walls, the cocci dividing by constriction; they are unicellular and usually contain a pair of chromatinic bodies. Analogous types occur in Staphylococcus aureus and Staph. albus. In one of these types the cells contained a well-defined central granule, dividing with the coccus. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-2-2-126