bacterial count

collocation in English

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bacterial
adjective
uk
/bækˈtɪə.ri.əl/us
/bækˈtɪr.i.əl/
caused by, made from, or relating ...
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count
noun
uk
/kaʊnt/us
/kaʊnt/
the act of counting, or the total number of ...
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(Definition ofbacterialandcountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In general, however, abacterialcountof >100 c. f. u. resulted in the relevant machines being taken out of use.
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Immediately after inoculation and at 20, 40 and 60 min after inoculation, 1.5 ml of the liquid portion of the cooked food was removed to perform abacterialcount.
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In the case of the milk which was kept at sixty degrees, and which started with 3,000, thebacterialcounthad increased to 450,000.
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We know that organic milk usually starts with a higherbacterialcountas it leaves the farm.
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There is a lowerbacterialcount, and there are more bacterial counts than we demand in this country.
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Why has it been thought necessary to retain the coliform test when there is a very lowbacterialcount?
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Crockery treated in this way, though not sterile, will have a lowbacterialcountand that is what we are trying to achieve.
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I can only spend time on the main parameter, the one which is commonest and most widely understood; namely, thebacterialcountof fecal coliform.
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I should have thought it possible, where thebacterialcountwas low, to omit he coliform test altogether.
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The highbacterialcountwas later confirmed to be caused by a seal excrement overload.
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Surprisingly, the bacterial counts on surfaces coated with aqueous fish extract were 10-100 times lower than on surfaces coated with laboratory broths when surfaces were submerged in bacterial suspensions.
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In the water sources sampled in the inter-epidemic period, faecal contamination was evident in at least six wells, with high bacterial counts in the other sources.
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At the time of opening, quality can be guaranteed and bacterial counts are zero.
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Near-zero bacterial counts are not observed even after 28 days of investigation.
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A similar study found that even after washing hands with povidone-iodine, those with rings had higher bacterial counts than those without.
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Zero bacterial counts at room temperature were achieved after 105360 minutes for five of the six alloys.
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