bacillus
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But tuberculosis is also curable and preventable, caused by a bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and spread when people who are sick expel bacteria into the air, usually by coughing.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2021
Pacini had discovered the “germ”, but it was not until the German physician Robert Koch himself discovered the comma bacillus in Egypt in 1883 that germ theory became popularised.
From The Guardian ● May 1, 2020
Caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae, it has affected multitudes over thousands of years — and, as a chronic disease with physical manifestations, has been a source of stigma and ostracism.
From Nature ● Mar. 3, 2019
Black rats carried fleas that were infested with a bacillus called Yersinia pestis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The present comparative rarity of tuberculosis results in large measure from the fact that the average person now seldom comes into contact with the tubercle bacillus.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Koch complied with a vial swarming with cholera bacilli.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 30, 2020
Cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid bacilli were subsequently identified.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2020
Is the humid air a forum whence bacilli sense a quorum?
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2018
Part b: The micrograph shows hotdog-shaped bacilli about 2 microns long.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
A person with active TB harbors hundreds of millions of bacilli in his lungs, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutant germs that aren’t stopped by anti-TB drugs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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