CULTURE, URINE Includes colony count

<p>1.0 mL urine catheter collection or clean catch mid-stream, first morning specimen preferred. <strong>Collect in a sterile srew capped urine container. If the testing is unable to be performed within 24 hours transfer the urine into a gray top urine transport tube. Ship same day as collected.</strong></p>

Conventional culture technique.

See Above

By Report.

2-3 days.

<p>The culture isolates and identifies significant pathogens responsible for urinary tract infections.</p>

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