Bacilli in a sentence

Once in the lymph nodes, the spores germinate into active bacilli that multiply and eventually burst the macrophages, releasing many more bacilli into the bloodstream to be transferred to the entire body.

A chest X-ray and multiple sputum cultures for acid-fast bacilli are typically part of the initial evaluation.

Bacillus anthracis Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph shows splenic tissue from a monkey with inhalational anthrax; featured are rod-shaped bacilli (yellow) and an erythrocyte (red).

Because the living bacilli evolve to make the best use of available nutrients, they become less well-adapted to human blood and can no longer induce disease when introduced into a human host.

But, if the disease is fatal to the person's body, its mass of anthrax bacilli becomes a potential source of infection to others and special precautions should be used to prevent further contamination.

Damage caused by the anthrax spores and bacilli to the central chest cavity can cause chest pain and difficulty in breathing.

George Bernard Shaw called them "uncouth bacilli".

If antibiotics are administered too late, even if the antibiotics eradicate the bacteria, some hosts will still die of toxemia because the toxins produced by the bacilli remain in their system at lethal dose levels.

In a biological version, Joan Slonczewski 's novel The Highest Frontier depicts a college student ascending a space elevator constructed of self-healing cables of anthrax bacilli.

It is considered a good agent in part because its ID 50 (number of bacilli needed to infect 50% of individuals) is considered to be one, making it the lowest known.

Koch announced a glycerine extract of the tubercle bacilli as a "remedy" for tuberculosis in 1890, calling it "tuberculin".

Microscopic visualization of the encapsulated bacilli, usually in very large numbers, in a blood smear stained with polychrome methylene blue (McFadyean stain) is fully diagnostic, though culture of the organism is still the gold standard for diagnosis.

Positive skin smears: In some case, acid-fast leprosy bacilli are considered diagnostic; however, the diagnosis is clinical.

The research continued throughout World War I until 1919, when the now avirulent bacilli were unable to cause tuberculosis disease in research animals.

The same day a sealed package of soil was left outside the military research facility at Porton Down ; tests revealed that it contained anthrax bacilli.

These dormant bacilli produce active tuberculosis in 5–10% of these latent cases, often many years after infection.

They noted a glycerin-bile-potato mixture grew bacilli that seemed less virulent, and changed the course of their research to see if repeated subculturing would produce a strain that was attenuated enough to be considered for use as a vaccine.