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Spirillum

noun
(pl. spirilla)
1.
Spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water.
2.
Any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form.  Synonym: spirilla.



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spirillum fever
Spirillum minus
genus Spirillum


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"Spirillum" Quotes from Famous Books



... fever in cattle arose thus; Dr. Klein alleging that pig typhoid was due to an organism; Toussaint attributing fowl cholera to a similar cause; Professor Koch attributing tubercular disease to specific germs; Dr. Vandyke Carter contending that there was a connection between the presence of bacillus spirillum and relapsing fever; and Mr. Talamon claiming to have discovered that diphtheria was due to an organism by means of which the virus could be conveyed from human beings to animals, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 • Various


Words linked to "Spirillum" :   spirillum fever, Spirillum minus, true bacteria, spirilla, eubacteria, eubacterium, ratbite fever bacterium, genus Spirillum


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