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Bacillary load
DEFINITION
Quantity of M. tuberculosis bacilli present in a human body, although usually used to refer to the M. tuberculosis concentration present in a sputum sample.
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SOURCE DEFINITION
Quantity of bacilli present (may reach over 100 million in a single cavity of the lung)
From: WHO
Year: 2010
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