bacilli

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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

Part b: The micrograph shows hotdog-shaped bacilli about 2 microns long.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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