bacillus

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It wasn’t until 1894 that Swiss scientist Alexandre Yersin discovered the bacillus that caused the plague: Yersinia pestis, named in his honor.

From Los Angeles Times

Little did they know that cramming tens of thousands of hollering partisans into Union Square in Manhattan was a gift to the tuberculosis bacillus.

From New York Times

The plague bacillus, as if it were some uncleansable stain on the human character, “never dies or disappears for good.”

From Washington Post

Centuries later, scientists concluded that the disease was caused by the bacillus Yersina pestis, which spread through touch, through the air and through the bite of infected fleas and rats.

From Los Angeles Times

Barthes, Sartre, De Beauvoir — his eminent contemporaries gave him grief for substituting a bacillus for Hitlerism, for mistaking an implacable fact of nature for the most human of evils.

From Los Angeles Times