bacilli

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All social classes suffered from the disease, but it had its greatest impact on the poor, for whom overcrowding was the worst and whose homes often lacked sunlight, which kills tuberculosis bacilli.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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

In a patient who gets only one antibiotic or inadequate doses of several, or who doesn’t take his medicine as instructed, the drug-susceptible bacilli may die off but the drug-resistant mutants will flourish.

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