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Bacterial Count
Definition 1
The quantitative determination of bacterial populations. The two most widely used methods for determining bacterial numbers are: 1) the standard, or viable, plate count method and 2) spectrophotometric (turbidimetric) analysis. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A measurement of the bacteria in a biological specimen. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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