bacilli

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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

While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies.

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