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bacilo
Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
"You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.
'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebrated Bacillus of cholera - the cholera germ.'
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