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
From that point, Kinyoun was at war with more than a bacillus.
From Nature • Apr. 23, 2019
And in this particular race the winner will probably turn out to be the TB bacillus.
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012
Black rats carried fleas that were infested with a bacillus called Yersinia pestis.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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