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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(redirected from Koch bacillus)

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Noun1.Mycobacterium tuberculosis - cause of tuberculosisMycobacterium tuberculosis - cause of tuberculosis                
tubercle bacillus
mycobacteria, mycobacterium - rod-shaped bacteria some saprophytic or causing diseases
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First, the War on Tuberculosis was characterized by a "bacillophobia," an obsession with preventing the spread of the Koch bacillus rather than by a concern with fortifying physical resistance to infection or eliminating the poverty that facilitated its spread.
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