tubercle bacillus in English
noun
1
a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis is an infection caused by a germ called the tubercle bacillus or Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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1. Probe and primer for tubercle bacillus detection, and method of detecting human tubercle bacillus therewith
2. Tuberculin is a glycerol extract of the tubercle bacillus.
3. “The other half do not take their treatment, or take it very irregularly, which causes a much higher mortality rate (25 percent of those treated) and also produces a strain of tubercle bacillus that is resistant to antibiotics.”