bacilli
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Three basic prokaryotic categories are cocci, spirilli, and bacilli.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
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
However, if the bacilli become active—when someone’s immune system is compromised, as with AIDS—they multiply rapidly into a bone-eating, lung-consuming illness that, unless treated, is fatal.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
