bacillus
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Scientists postulate that the bacillus originated in some lower animal and jumped to humans.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
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
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
Paul began to worry that if drug-resistant bacilli were infecting people in the slums, how long would it take before the disease spread across all of Lima?
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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