typhoid bacillus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of typhoid bacillus
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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Reason for the project: Japanese soil has been heavily fertilized with night soil for centuries; vegetables grown in such farmland are fresh but may harbor disease-producing bacteria like the typhoid bacillus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nowadays, the typhoid bacillus is "literally no longer a problem" to Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, research director of the center.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society.
From Time Magazine Archive
A very considerable proportion of the people that recover from typhoid fever still continue to harbor the typhoid bacillus in their urinary and gall bladders.
From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George
We have found what we now call 'typhoid carriers'—persons who do not have the disease themselves, perhaps never have had it, but who are literally living test-tubes of the typhoid bacillus.
From The Silent Bullet by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
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