bacilli

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All social classes suffered from the disease, but it had its greatest impact on the poor, for whom overcrowding was the worst and whose homes often lacked sunlight, which kills tuberculosis bacilli.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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

A person with active TB harbors hundreds of millions of bacilli in his lungs, enough to ensure that a small number will be mutant germs that aren’t stopped by anti-TB drugs.

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