bacilli

1. sing. bacillus One of three forms of bacteria, usually rod-shaped.

Example Sentences

While waiting or serving his sentence, he’d probably get infected with TB—it was estimated that 80 percent of all Russian prisoners had bacilli in their bodies.

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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.

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Koch complied with a vial swarming with cholera bacilli.

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Cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and typhoid bacilli were subsequently identified.

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The investigation, by a team of microbiologists from Southampton University and published in the US journal mBio, found that bacilli such as listeria and salmonella remain completely active after chlorine washing.

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