bacillus

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A series of laboratory discoveries in the late 19th century taught scientists that Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacillus that caused diphtheria, killed animals and people by producing a toxin.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

“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

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

There is also another kind of plague to worry about: the plague bacillus is endemic all over the Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan