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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

A series of laboratory discoveries in the late 19th century taught scientists that Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacillus that caused diphtheria, killed animals and people by producing a toxin.

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2021

In 1876, the German scientist Robert Koch discovered the anthrax bacillus, kicking off the new research field of medical bacteriology.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 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

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 culture showed that the bacilli from his body were resistant to all four of the drugs he’d been given, and to one other first-line antibiotic as well.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French