Examples from literature

• He experimented with anthrax bacilli in water to which iodine was added, and the bacilli were destroyed. 
• Hog-cholera bacilli can live in the ground for at least three months. 
• The so-called cholera bacillus must gain access to the intestinal tract before it finds conditions suitable to colonization. 
• Tuberculosis, tetanus, anthrax, and many other surgical diseases are due to different forms of bacilli. 
• When these dead, or half-dead, bacilli are injected into the system, they stir up the body to produce promptly large amounts of its antitoxin.