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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

Nowadays, the typhoid bacillus is "literally no longer a problem" to Dr. Leslie A. Chambers, research director of the center.

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

But the bacteriologists further discovered that the typhoid bacillus was present in water which was not infectious, and in persons who were not ill, or had never been ill, with typhoid.

From God and my Neighbour by Robert Blatchford

The typhoid bacillus and other bacteria can, of course, be carried into a cellar by the seeping in of drainage water.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

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