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comma bacillus
noun
- a curved, rod-shaped bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, causing Asiatic cholera.
comma bacillus
noun
- a comma-shaped bacterium, Vibrio comma, that causes cholera in man: family Spirillaceae
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comma bacillus1
First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences
Cultures of the comma bacillus were also made in agar-agar jelly, which is not liquefied by them.
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But attempts made to cultivate in a similar way the comma bacillus by transferring it from animal to animal failed.
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The comma bacillus of Koch, and the typhoid fever germ of Eberth, are especially destroyed in normal gastric juice.
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The word is also applied to comma-shaped objects, such as the “comma-bacillus,” the causal agent in cholera.
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Trimethylenediamine is believed to have been isolated by Brieger from cultivations in beef broth of the comma bacillus.
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