What is "bacilli"

Usage examples of "bacilli".

But then he had picked up Scientific American to find a lengthy and colorful article by Sergei Forward on how he, the great Finnish research bacteriologist, had discovered how to mutate various bacilli with Uranium.

We even tried aureomycin, in case the bacilli were resistant to streptomycin.

The bacilli seem to have mutated or developed into something more virulent and faster-growing.

Then there's pneumonic plague, when the bacilli are localized in the lungs - and septicemic plague, when the blood is infected.

All of a sudden, you find out how to mutate bacilli with radio-active rays - the greatest discovery of your whole life, the discovery that's going to make it big - and what happens?

Glantz had had no choice at all but to sue, and right now, the case of the mutated bacilli was a minor cause celebre in the Federal District courts.

For a moment, he held up his hands in front of him, and imagined they were teeming with infected bacilli.

Selmer might have both had in innocuous forms, and whose bacilli might have resisted the bacilli of super-plague?

They could drive upstate, and into Canada, and leave America to the ravages of fast-breeding bacilli and whatever fate was in store for her.

But they both have good repuations, and they're both interested in radioactive mutation of bacilli.

The sewage, if you like, was the laboratory in which the bacilli was mutated.

During Monday morning, the fast-breeding bacilli brought painful death to thousands of New Yorkers, transmitted by minute specks of infected saliva.

The black floor and the polished mirrors on the walls reflected their painful, grotesque faces as the bacilli swelled their joints and clogged their lungs.

The slender piece of shrapnel was being isolated and encapsulated by what appeared to be the same kind of calcification process that isolates TB bacilli in the lungs.

I set a smear of his blood in with a preserved sample of the old Viet'sthe old man who had the typhusand Romain's WBCs attacked and destroyed the typhus bacilli as if they were at a picnic.