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Definition of Typhoid bacillus
1. Noun. A form of salmonella that causes typhoid fever.
Medical Definition of Typhoid bacillus
1. A serotype of salmonella enterica which is the aetiologic agent of typhoid. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Typhoid Bacillus
Literary usage of Typhoid bacillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The typhoid bacillus is a short comparatively plump rod varying in length ...
The marked motility of the typhoid bacillus is of much importance in the study ..."
2. The Lancet (1898)
"My observations are quite in harmony with those of Germano and Maurea, in that
I have yet to see a true typhoid bacillus which reduces ..."
3. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"THE typhoid bacillus. Tins organism was first observed by Eberth, in 1880, ...
The typhoid bacillus is a motile, aerobic, facultative anaerobic, ..."
4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"Surgical methods fail to cure carriers, for the typhoid bacillus may ...
The typhoid bacillus has no spore. It is, therefore, comparatively easy to destroy. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"The above discoveries of the typhoid bacillus in natural waters have, in almost
all cases, been made not by means of the ordinary method of plate ..."
6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"Suppurative and inflammatory processes (metastases) may be kindled by the typhoid
bacillus in many parts of the body. The osseous system seems especially ..."
7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"Suppurative and inflammatory processes (metastases) may be kindled by the typhoid
bacillus in many parts of the body. The osseous system seems especially ..."