bacilloscopy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacilloscopy (plural bacilloscopies)
- The examination of a diagnostic smear (typically of skin or sputum) in order to verify the presence of specific bacilli
- 2012 December 17, Marcelo Rodrigues Bacci, José Jorge Namura, Andrea Thaumaturgo Lera, “Complicated urinary infection and extrapulmonary tuberculosis”, in BMJ Case Reports[1], volume 2012, :
- Genitourinary tuberculosis is often diagnosed in the later stage due to the fact that the symptoms are non-specific and technical difficulties to isolate the tubercle bacillus through bacilloscopy or culture in specific medium are many.