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staphylococcus - simon

Posted: Aug 26, 2011

could someone please clear this up for me - to capitalize or not ??

Capitalize when followed by name of species. - Otherwise, lower case. sm

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Streptococcus aureus, but
group A streptococcus, or
gram-positive streptococcus

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