Definition of Grass bacillus

1. Noun. A species of bacillus found in soil and decomposing organic matter; some strains produce antibiotics.

Exact synonyms: Bacillus Globigii, Bacillus Subtilis, Hay Bacillus
Generic synonyms: B, Bacillus

Medical Definition of Grass bacillus

1. Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, nonpathogenic bacterium which lives in soil. Its genome has been widely studied and is frequently used in genetic engineering and microbiology experiments. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grass Bacillus

grasping
grasping reflex
graspingly
graspingness
graspingnesses
graspless
grasps
graspt

Literary usage of Grass bacillus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"With this possibility in view, the metabolism of three representative types of the acid-fast group of bacteria, the grass bacillus, the smegma ..."

2. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Moeller's Timothy-grass bacillus. From a culture on agar. Stained with carbol-fuchsin, ... 89, 6) not unlike that of Moeller's grass bacillus II. ..."

3. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1901)
"In respect of staining reactions the grass bacillus 11 behaves like the timothy ... In respect of the appearance of cultures the grass bacillus IJ closely ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1900)
"... of different animals bacilli which he designates respectively as the dung bacillus, the timothy bacillus or grass bacillus I, and the grass bacillus II. ..."

5. Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Complications, with Special Reference to by Sherman Grant Bonney (1910)
"Attention is also called by Creighton to the fact that in these two researches with cultures of the timothy-grass bacillus the inoculation was not made into ..."

6. Bacteriology of Milk by Harold William Swithinbank, George Newman (1903)
"In all animals injected with the grass bacillus a negative reaction to ... An acid-fast bacillus similar to grass bacillus No. ii. has recently been ..."

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