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

A few primitive forms, such as the botulism and tetanus bacilli, manage to survive even today only in oxygen-free environments.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan