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
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
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
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
A few primitive forms, such as the botulism and tetanus bacilli, manage to survive even today only in oxygen-free environments.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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