bacteriological
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Infrastructure and Environment said routine bacteriological seawater samples taken on 18 and 19 May at Plemont, Grouville, Harve des Pas and Victoria Pool found the high levels of pollutants.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
They cannot be moved to cooler river waters until researchers rule out a bacteriological cause of the deaths.
From Reuters • Oct. 2, 2023
“If the material is composted, then we don’t have the bacteriological issues because that’s what the composting does — it kills the bacteria,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2023
Scottish microbiologist Alexander Fleming was studying “a purely academic bacteriological problem” when he stumbled on penicillin.
From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2022
All cases of sore throat in school-children should be examined bacteriologically, but unfortunately the bacteriological examination for diphtheria is a complicated process which requires an expert bacteriologist and a laboratory.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
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