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typhoid bacillus

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noun

  1. the bacterium Salmonella typhosa, causing typhoid fever.


Etymology

Origin of typhoid bacillus

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

They are more highly pathogenic for the lower animals than is the typhoid bacillus, but apparently somewhat less pathogenic for man.

From Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan

It should be emphasized that in the case of the tubercle organism, no growth ever occurs in milk, but with the typhoid bacillus growth is possible.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings

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