0 a bacterium (= an extremely small organism) that is shaped like a rod. There are various types of bacillus, some of which can cause disease.
He experimented with anthrax bacilli in water to which iodine was added, and the bacilli were destroyed.
Hog-cholera bacilli can live in the ground for at least three months.
The so-called cholera bacillus must gain access to the intestinal tract before it finds conditions suitable to colonization.
Tuberculosis, tetanus, anthrax, and many other surgical diseases are due to different forms of bacilli.
When these dead, or half-dead, bacilli are injected into the system, they stir up the body to produce promptly large amounts of its antitoxin.
Bacteriologically negative cases may be explained because of the low number of bacilli in samples.
Three times he has infected our blood and brains with the bacillus of perfection.
Interferon-gamma-treated murine macrophages inhibit growth of tubercle bacilli via the generation of reactive nitrogen intermediates.
