0 a scientist who studies bacteria, especially those that cause disease: --
It is a bacterium that is difficult to work with, and bacteriologists have never been able to grow it successfully.
She is a physician and a bacteriologist working at a university laboratory.
Bacteriologists know that culturing bacteria is time-consuming and many bacteria do not thrive in the lab.
He was an observant and conscientious bacteriologist.
The centre brings together an interdisciplinary group of virologists, bacteriologists, epidemiologists, and clinicians.