spirillum

How To Use spirillum In A Sentence

• a clearly defined _spirillum_, the _Treponema pallida_ of Schaudinn. Preventable Diseases
• Then, with his assistant, he put on his white robes, mask, gloves and other precautions for asepsis, setting out the apparatus for the intravenous administration of the drug that would kill the spirillum. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"
• 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, and _vice versa_. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
• Possibly it is a true spirillum, portions of which appear in the comma shape, much as in other spirilla - e.g., spirilla undula, which do not always form complete spirals, but consist only of more or less curved rods.
• On account of this developmental change, he doubted if the cholera organism should be ranked with bacilli; it is rather a transitional form between the bacillus and the spirillum. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
• One species, Sulfurospirillum barnesii, can metabolize no fewer than nine types of atoms or ions other than arsenates, including sulfur, nitrates, nitrites, and selenates.
• There can be no question that he saw them, for we can recognize in his descriptions of these various forms of little ` ` animals '' the four principal forms of microbes -- the long and short rods of bacilli and bacteria, the spheres of micrococci, and the corkscrew spirillum. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
• Possibly it is a true spirillum, portions of which appear in the comma shape, much as in other spirilla -- _e. g_., spirilla undula, which do not always form complete spirals, but consist only of more or less curved rods. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
• Previously, time-resolved fluorescence and transient absorption measurements have been performed using chromatophores from Rhodospirillum (Rps.) rubrum and Blastochloris (Bl.) viridis.
• In some way," he replied quickly, "they have become infected by the bite of an African tick which carries spirillum fever. The Romance of Elaine Sequel to "Exploits of Elaine"