Which disease caused by a bacillus is abbreviated as "TB"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 2007] Reference

It has been known for a long time that the tubercle bacillus is rapidly destroyed in the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1952 - Presentation Speech] Reference

The next cheering find was that the worst enemies of the bacillus were our best friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

Because of the resemblance of these latter to a walking stick they have been termed bacillus (plural, bacilli).    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

Well, obviously, if the bacillus is the genuine Loeffler, you have diphtheria; and if it's the pseudobacillus, youre quite well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Dilemma] Reference

If the anthrax bacteria, known as bacillus anthraxious (ph), actually gets into the lungs, an inhaled anthrax infection might occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2001] Reference

They did a quality check in the Slim-Fast factory and they found that they might have the presence of a bacteria called bacillus cereus.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2009] Reference

"You see," he said, "the bacillus is a facultative saprophyte.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Am Legend]

To do this, and to distinguish themselves from the "bacillus" (germs) they were eliminating, Himmler came up with a criterion tha ….    From Wordnik.com.  [yaman's amateur ramblings] Reference

"bacillus" and "micrococcus" have narrow technical meanings, and the other terms are too vague to be scientific.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

By 1876 the anthrax bacillus had been obtained in pure culture by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

(A) Cell body of the parent bacillus unaltered in shape (Fig. 91, a).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

The disease is caused by a specific germ known as the typhoid bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Rats dying of the plague have their blood filled with the plague bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

This is the case in the methods for staining the tubercle bacillus and also in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

But the building may not have the safeguards required to contain the anthrax bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germ Warfare Alert] Reference

The effect of the tubercle bacillus on the body is to irritate and destroy the tissues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The bacteria, bacillus cereus, is a micro-organism that may cause diarrhea, nausea and/or vomiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slim-Fast recalls 10 million cans of its diet drink] Reference

A bacillus, however short, can usually be distinguished from a coccus in that two sides are parallel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Arrange illumination, etc., and select a solitary bacillus for observation, by the help of the 1/6-inch lens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

They are frequently found on rats, and therefore may carry the plague bacillus from rat to rat or from rat to man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

This bacillus probably enters the body tissues by way of the lining membrane of the intestinal and respiratory tracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

There is nothing in his record or career to show that he could distinguish between a plague bacillus and a potato-bug.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

In those cases where the spore membrane is discarded the cell membrane of the new bacillus may either be formed from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

(This often, but not invariably, removes the stain from acid-fast bacilli other than tubercle; e. g., smegma bacillus.) 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

After serving the diseased animal, the male may carry the bacillus of abortion into the maternal passages of the next cow he serves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Furthermore, a bacillus may give rise to more than one toxic body, either as stages in one process of change or as distinct products.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Iraqi military defectors have revealed to Western intelligence agencies that Iraq has been conducting research on the anthrax bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germ Warfare Alert] Reference

In other words, animals vaccinated with the cultivated bacillus showed immunity from disease when reinoculated with the deadly wild form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

If there is evidence of design in a rose, there is at least as much evidence of design in the tubercle bacillus, and the tetanus bacillus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference