Bacilli

The poison excreted by the bacilli is the diphtheria bacilli's dangerous weapon against the human being, without which weapon they would be delivered over helplessly to the natural prophylactic power of the living human organism. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Just as little as it has any direct influence on the diphtheria bacilli, is it able to have any direct action, whatever, on the living body elements of the patient who either has, or is threatened with, diphtheria. ❋ Unknown (1967)

But it is as well to note that not only is the secretion of the lung called sputum dangerous by reason of its bacillary content, but that, according to the investigations of Flügge, even the smallest drops of mucus expelled into the air by the patient when he coughs, clears his throat, and even speaks, contain bacilli and can cause infection. ❋ Unknown (1967)

When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. ❋ Unknown (2000)

We distinguish within this group two widely different series of forms, which we will speak of as bacilli and cocco-bacteria respectively. ❋ Various (N/A)

When people who are sick with TB in their lungs cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Most of the second-line TB drugs used to treat drug-resistant TB are known for their relative ineffectiveness against the bacilli, meaning a lengthy treatment of up to two years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

George Bernard Shaw, who raised many an eyebrow, referred to them as “uncouth bacilli” and tended to avoid using them at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Massive lesions soon form in the lungs and brain, as a few thousand bacilli propagate within days into literally trillions of voracious parasitic microbes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beautiful carpets are not beautiful to the mind that knows they are filled with germs and bacilli. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Daughtry had inquired into the matter, and the inquiry was violent; for he had a wholesome fear of germs and bacilli, and when the two active young men tried to run him through with their filth-corroded spears, he caught the spear of one young man under his arm and put the other young man to sleep with a left hook to the jaw. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For it was these bacteria, and germs, and microbes, and bacilli, cultured in the laboratories of the West, that had come down upon China in the rain of glass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The presentation of Jews as “corroding and poisonous parasites,” as vermin, as bacteria and bacilli, everywhere infesting and striving to “destroy the body of the German people as a whole” and each individual German with a “demonic power” paralyzed to a large extent any internal resistance on the part of the masses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A man without any visible symptoms may be chock full of the leprosy bacilli. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Despite his grim subject matter, Mr. Patrick was a happy bioweaponeer and liked to shock people he was consulting for by releasing a puff of weapons-grade dust in their presence — minus the anthrax or tularemia bacilli it was designed to carry. ❋ Stephen Miller (2010)