bacillus

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 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

Black rats carried fleas that were infested with a bacillus called Yersinia pestis.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

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

Paul began to worry that if drug-resistant bacilli were infecting people in the slums, how long would it take before the disease spread across all of Lima?

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French