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tubercle bacillus

noun

  1. the bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causing tuberculosis.


tubercle bacillus

noun

  1. a rodlike Gram-positive bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis , that causes tuberculosis: family Mycobacteriaceae
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of tubercle bacillus1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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