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bacilli
noun(ba-cil-lus)
any of a genus (Bacillus) of rod-shaped gram-positive usually aerobic bacteria producing endospores and including many saprophytes and some parasites (such as B. anthracis of anthrax); broadly : a straight rod-shaped bacterium
bacilli
noun(ba-cil-lus)
bacterium; especially : a disease-producing bacterium

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