| Bordet-Gengou bacillus | <bacteria> A small, aerobic, gram-negative bacillus, causative organism of whooping cough. Produces a variety of toxins including a dermonecrotising toxin, an adenyl cyclase, an endotoxin and pertussis toxin, as well as surface components such as fimbrial haemagglutinin. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| Calmette-Guerin bacillus | An attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis used in the preparation of BCG vaccine that is used for immunization against tuberculosis and in cancer chemotherapy. Extracts of the bacterium have remarkable powers in stimulation of lymphocytes and leucocytes and are used in adjuvants. Synonym: Calmette-Guerin bacillus. Acronym: BCG Origin: Fr. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's bacillus | A serotype of salmonella enterica which is an aetiologic agent of gastroenteritis in man and other animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gas bacillus | The most common aetiologic agent of gas gangrene. It is differentiable into several distinct types based on the distribution of twelve different toxins. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paracolon bacillus | Any one of a number of diverse enteric bacteria which fail to ferment lactose promptly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradysentery bacillus | A bacterium which is one of the aetiologic agents of bacillary dysentery (dysentery, bacillary) and sometimes of infantile gastroenteritis. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paratyphoid bacillus | One of the three organisms causing the three forms, A, B, and C, of paratyphoid fever. See: paratyphoid fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Park-Williams bacillus | A special strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae used for toxin production. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ghon-Sachs bacillus | A species found in malignant oedema of animals, in human war wounds, and in cases of appendicitis; it is pathogenic for guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, and pigeons and produces an exotoxin that is lethal and haemolytic. Synonym: Ghon-Sachs bacillus, Sachs' bacillus, vibrion septique. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glanders bacillus | A species infectious to horses and donkeys, causing glanders and farcy. Synonym: glanders bacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vincent's bacillus | Probably Fusobacterium nucleatum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vole bacillus | An acid-fast bacillus isolated from voles and used in the production of a vaccine against human and bovine tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grass bacillus | <bacteria> Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, nonpathogenic bacterium which lives in soil. Its genome has been widely studied and is frequently used in genetic engineering and microbiology experiments. (09 Oct 1997) |
| ribonuclease (Bacillus subtilis) | 1. Ribonuclease (Azotobacter agilis); ribonuclease (Proteus mirabilis); an enzyme catalyzing the endonucleolytic cleavage of RNA to yield 2',3'-cyclic nucleotides. 2. Ribonuclease T1. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cholera bacillus | <bacteria> Bacterium that causes cholera, the life threatening aspects of which are caused by the exotoxin (see cholera toxin). Short, slightly curved rods, highly motile (single polar flagellum), gram-negative. Adhere to intestinal epithelium (adhesion mechanism unknown) and produce enzymes (neuraminidase, proteases) that facilitate access of the bacterium to the epithelial surface. (18 Nov 1997) |