bacillus

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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

And so – not without a certain delight in my own suffering, of course – I sat on the couch, a sniffling bacillus tucked cosily on either side.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2015

Black rats carried fleas that were infested with a bacillus called Yersinia pestis.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Last summer a study claiming to show that break-ups can propagate from friend to friend to friend like a marriage-eating bacillus spread across the news agar from CNN to CBS to ABC with predictable speed.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2011

There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan