| No plague bacilli were found either in the bubo of the first or second order. |
| The bubo may have opened, and started draining, and it may have been infectious. |
| In such cases the fight, which is the illness, takes place chiefly in the bubo. |
| Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague. |
| After the bubo has been opened the wound may take on the characters of a soft sore. |
| The bubo that Ms. Marker developed — a swelling that is the telltale marker of plague — was more pronounced than anything Mr. Tull had, suggesting that her lymph nodes were combating the bacteria more effectively than his. |
