At 4 pm, a physician requests that you add a culture for Clostridium difficile to a routine stool culture he wrote orders for at 9 am. You will
A) offer to perform toxin detection instead.
B) comply with his request.
C) request a new specimen due to the delay.
D) offer to send the stool to the state public health laboratory.
Question 2
Commensal Neisseria spp. are often recognized by their
A) ability to grow on Thayer-Martin agar.
B) sensitivity to colistin.
C) pigment production.
D) A and B.
E) B and C.
Cell culture in a Petri dish
Bacterial Culture
A medical assistant helps the physician with a patient.
Brain activity varies by culture
The physician uses two hands for deep bimanual palpation.