- plural of bacillus.
bacilli
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All social classes suffered from the disease, but it had its greatest impact on the poor, for whom overcrowding was the worst and whose homes often lacked sunlight, which kills tuberculosis bacilli.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Swabs from the skin, nose and mouth, as well as saliva and stool samples, showed that 34 percent of all participants had antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as resistant Gram-negative bacilli or vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
From Scientific American ● May 16, 2022
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
Paul began to worry that if drug-resistant bacilli were infecting people in the slums, how long would it take before the disease spread across all of Lima?
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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