bacillus

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Scientists postulate that the bacillus originated in some lower animal and jumped to humans.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

A series of laboratory discoveries in the late 19th century taught scientists that Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the bacillus that caused diphtheria, killed animals and people by producing a toxin.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

Caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae, it has affected multitudes over thousands of years — and, as a chronic disease with physical manifestations, has been a source of stigma and ostracism.

From Nature • Mar. 3, 2019

And in this particular race the winner will probably turn out to be the TB bacillus.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

The first European incursion of the Black Death, in 1347-51, was a classic virgin-soil epidemic; mutation had just created the pulmonary version of the bacillus Yersiniapestis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann