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CFU en · NOUN

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1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of colony-forming unit.
   alt of colony-forming unit
   • The three water samples for total coliform bacteria were 57,000 CFUs, 43,000 CFUs and 45,000 CFUs. (Colony-forming units, or CFUs, estimate the number of bacteria or fungal cells that have the ability to multiply in a sample.) 2017 September 1, Susan Scutti, “Sewage, fecal bacteria in Hurricane Harvey floodwaters”, in CNN:

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