bacillus
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“The Plague,” the suddenly timely and widely reread Albert Camus novel, is about the random executions carried out by the bubonic plague bacillus, which only makes manifest the inherent precariousness of human existence.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2020
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
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
There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
Part b: The micrograph shows hotdog-shaped bacilli about 2 microns long.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
A culture showed that the bacilli from his body were resistant to all four of the drugs he’d been given, and to one other first-line antibiotic as well.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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