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While a controversy ensued, Hansen rightfully received acknowledgment as the discoverer of the leprosy bacillus.
His discovery of the tubercle bacillus was a starting point for a worldwide campaign against an age-old scourge of the human race.
He discovered the leprosy bacillus in 1873, a cousin of the tuberculosis bacillus, and the disease is often called Hansen's disease.
Currently a third of the world's population carry the bacillus, albeit in a dormant form.
In its vegetative form, the bacillus has a protective capsule that keeps a human's immune system from killing it.
The diphtheria bacillus also secretes an exotoxin that can cause other symptoms such as inflammation of the heart.
Tularemia is caused by the zoonotic bacillus commonly known as Francisella tularensis.
Then there was the popular microbe theory, wherein a living microbe or bacillus caused baldness.
Clostridium botulinum, the causative agent of botulism, is an obligate anaerobic, gram-positive bacillus occurring singly or in pairs.
One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open.
At far right, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, an elongate bacillus form.
The bacillus can lie dormant and undetected in the body for several months or years.
Chancroid, acute, localized, chiefly sexually transmitted disease, usually of the genital area, caused by the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi.
Doctors said the condition was a case of a bacterial infection known as actinomycosis, a common oral bacillus that rarely attacks the tongue.
The book ends with the haunting observation that although the plague bacillus can go into hiding for years and years, it never dies or disappears for good.
American researchers say the strain of the bacillus found is more common in laboratories than in the wild.
Was the bacillus of totalitarianism that infected Germany first bred in Russia?
Tetanus is an often fatal infectious disease caused by the toxigenic strains of the tetanus bacillus.
This bacillus is also associated with bacteremia, endocarditis, and osteomyelitis in drug addicts.
Additionally, they had only produced a harmless, non-pathogenic strain of bacillus anthracis.
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For instance, not a few healthy noses and throats contain the bacillus of diphtheria and the diplococcus of pneumonia.
The evidence upon which this bacillus is regarded as the cause of food poisoning is not altogether convincing.
This opinion was strengthened by a knowledge of the spores of the splenic bacillus.
The staphylococcus, bacillus of Friedlnder, colon bacillus, and Bacillus pyocyaneus may be met in chronic middle-ear disease.
Two years later, Flexner isolated the bacillus of infantile paralysis and Plotz that of typhus fever.
Like the bacillus of splenic fever, the microbe of the fowl cholera is an aerobic organism.
Suppose, now, that the bacillus took such a new departure, and got ahead of our resistive power.
Ordinarily, no attempt is made to identify any but the tubercle bacillus and the gonococcus.
Cultures of the comma bacillus were also made in agar-agar jelly, which is not liquefied by them.
The growth appears limited to micrococcus and bacillus rods, while spores or bacillus threads are never found.
That the pneumonic form of the plague results from inhalation of the bacillus can not be doubted.
This resembles that for the tubercle bacillus, viz., drying on a cover glass and staining with fuchsin or methyl-olin.
At this rate of growth from a single cholera bacillus sixteen quadrillion might arise in a single day.
The bacillus remains after the use of antitoxin just as if antitoxin had not been used.
Then, in 1881, came the welcome news that Koch had discovered the bacillus of tubercle.
I shall see that your name is coupled with the bacillus as that of its discoverer.
I found the story of the bacillus, the curse that killed Darmstetter, that killed Helen.
Is it credible that old Melchizedek knew nothing about the telephone, or the Roentgen ray, or the cholera bacillus?
The great resemblance this colony bears to those formed by the granule bacillus from yoghourt will be apparent.
A bacillus belonging to the paratyphoid group was isolated from the stools of patients, but not from the dried codfish.
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