bacillus
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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
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
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
From that point, Kinyoun was at war with more than a bacillus.
From Nature ● Apr. 23, 2019
There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
Part b: The micrograph shows hotdog-shaped bacilli about 2 microns long.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The toxins of diphtheria bacilli and streptococci are produced when the organisms have been infected by bacteriophage; it is the virus that provides the code for toxin.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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