You Are the Supervisor of a New Reference Microbiology Laboratory

question 38

Multiple Choice

You are the supervisor of a new reference microbiology laboratory, which will receive clinical specimens for identi?cation of bacterial pathogens. When choosing the types of media to order for culture and isolation procedures in your laboratory, what question(s) do you need to answer?

• A) What type of bacteria will you be culturing?
• B) What are the growth factors required by the bacteria that you will be identifying?
• C) What kind of microbiota will the patient specimens contain?
• D) All of the choices are correct.

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