bacillus

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

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

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

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

While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies.

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