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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
