What term is used to describe a cluster of eight spherical bacteria?

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12 May 2018
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Diplococci refers to pairs of cocci, tetrads are groups of four, and octococci is not a standard term. The correct term for a group of eight cocci arranged in a cube-like structure is Sarcina.

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