comma bacillus

noun

1. a curved, rod-shaped bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causing Asiatic cholera.

comma bacillus

noun

1. a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae

Word History and Origins

Origin of comma bacillus¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Cultures of the comma bacillus were also made in agar-agar jelly, which is not liquefied by them.

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But attempts made to cultivate in a similar way the comma bacillus by transferring it from animal to animal failed.

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The comma bacillus of Koch, and the typhoid fever germ of Eberth, are especially destroyed in normal gastric juice.

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The word is also applied to comma-shaped objects, such as the “comma-bacillus,” the causal agent in cholera.

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Trimethylenediamine is believed to have been isolated by Brieger from cultivations in beef broth of the comma bacillus.

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