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

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

Christian had already been there for months, weighing only about twenty-two pounds, his lungs filled with TB bacilli and an oxygen mask continually strapped over his mouth.

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