bacillus

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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

From that point, Kinyoun was at war with more than a bacillus.

From Nature • Apr. 23, 2019

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Last summer a study claiming to show that break-ups can propagate from friend to friend to friend like a marriage-eating bacillus spread across the news agar from CNN to CBS to ABC with predictable speed.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2011

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan