bacillus

“The Plague,” the suddenly timely and widely reread Albert Camus novel, is about the random executions carried out by the bubonic plague bacillus, which only makes manifest the inherent precariousness of human existence.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020

Robert Koch’s discovery of the contagious tubercle bacillus in 1882 gave rise to the sanatorium movement in Europe and the United States.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 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

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

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Swabs from the skin, nose and mouth, as well as saliva and stool samples, showed that 34 percent of all participants had antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as resistant Gram-negative bacilli or vancomycin-resistant enterococci.

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2022

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

Christian had already been there for months, weighing only about twenty-two pounds, his lungs filled with TB bacilli and an oxygen mask continually strapped over his mouth.

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