Bacilli (Rod-shaped)
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- Anthrax - a description of three types of the disease
- Campylobacter - the cause of human enteritis
- Cholera - a disease in which as much as twenty liters of fluid per day are withdrawn from the body, resulting in acidosis, shock, and death
- Clostridium Botulinum - an organism which produces deadly neurotoxins in food
- Clostridium Difficile - a cause of pseudomembranous colitis, a potentially serious form of diarrhea, caused by taking antibiotics
- Clostridium Perfringens - an organism most frequently responsible for released toxins that cause tissue damage
- Clostridium Tetani - an anaerobic organism thriving on injured or dead wound tissue
- Corynebacterium Diphtheriae - the cause of the disease diptheria
- Enterobacteriaceae - causes urinary tract infections and such diseases as pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis
- Escherichia Coli - a food-borne bacterium that attacks the digestive tract
- Haemophilus - the prime cause of meningitis in children under the age of three
- Klebsiella - organisms responsible for several respiratory diseases
- Legionella Pneumophila - a pneumonia-like illness that was virtually unknown until an incident in Philadelphia in 1976
- Leprosy - a disease suspected of being transmitted from person to person living under poor sanitary conditions
- Listeria Monocytogenes - causes many infections including neonatal sepsis, meningitis, spontaneous abortions or stillbirths, and in immunocompromised patients
- Mycobacteria - a class of pathogens that comes in between bacteria and viruses
- Pseudomonas - the cause of melioidosis and numerous infections
- Salmonella - the cause of the varying degrees of gastroenteritis
- Shigellae - the cause of varying degrees of dysentry and enteritis
- Tuberculosis - a severe disease of the lungs
- Yersinia - responsible for the disease yersiniosis, a severe diarrheal infection contracted after eating contaminated food
