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contaminated culture

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contaminated culture
[kəntam′inātid]
a bacterial culture that has acquired unwanted foreign microorganisms.


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It is not cost-effective for a laboratory to provide definitive workup of contaminated cultures because repeat cultures yield better results.
Urine Culture Contamination: A College of American Pathologists ... by Leonas G Bekeris and Bruce Allen Jones and Molly K Walsh and Elizabeth A Wagar / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
18 Institutional contamination rates were defined as the number of contaminated cultures processed during a quarter divided by the total number of cultures performed during the quarter.
Trends in Blood Culture Contamination: A College of American ... by Leonas G Bekeris and Joseph A Tworek and Molly K Walsh and Paul N Valenstein / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The average contribution of transient bacteremias to a facility's contaminated culture rate is not known.
Controlling blood culture contamination rates by Ernst, Dennis J. / Medical Laboratory Observer
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