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
From that point, Kinyoun was at war with more than a bacillus.
From Nature • Apr. 23, 2019
And so – not without a certain delight in my own suffering, of course – I sat on the couch, a sniffling bacillus tucked cosily on either side.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2015
The present comparative rarity of tuberculosis results in large measure from the fact that the average person now seldom comes into contact with the tubercle bacillus.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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