| His discovery of the tubercle bacillus was a starting point for a worldwide campaign against an age-old scourge of the human race. |
| One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open. |
| Then there was the popular microbe theory, wherein a living microbe or bacillus caused baldness. |
| This resembles that for the tubercle bacillus, viz., drying on a cover glass and staining with fuchsin or methyl-olin. |
| Tularemia is caused by the zoonotic bacillus commonly known as Francisella tularensis. |
| The diphtheria bacillus also secretes an exotoxin that can cause other symptoms such as inflammation of the heart. |
