bacilli

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The investigation, by a team of microbiologists from Southampton University and published in the US journal mBio, found that bacilli such as listeria and salmonella remain completely active after chlorine washing.

From The Guardian

Is the humid air a forum whence bacilli sense a quorum?

From New York Times

If the patient fails to complete the treatment or the TB bacilli in her system is already immune to one of those antibiotics, however, then some of the germs will survive, adapt and grow stronger.

From Scientific American

And when you read that George Bernard Shaw once dismissed apostrophes as “uncouth bacilli,” it’s hard to disagree.

From Washington Post

Koch had identified the culpable organism only eight years earlier and was preparing to proclaim, with much fanfare, that an extract of dead bacilli could cure the immensely feared disease.

From New York Times