Exam 6: Specimen Collection and Processing

To help the microbiologist report microbiology results to the physician in a timely fashion to ensure the appropriate treatment, the technician may use this report.

When using the isolation streaking technique, the greatest concentration of organisms (if present) will be in which quadrant?

Cultures for anaerobes and broth cultures may be incubated for

Why is it acceptable for a fecal sample to be collected in a nonsterile container?

A technician receives a package from a supplier of quality control microorganisms. The package has a small watertight vial in a larger watertight tube. The larger tube has some bubble wrap around it, but the larger tube is just placed in the fiberboard box. All of the following was right with this packaging, except:

All of the four levels represent a possible scheme for prioritizing the handling of specimens, except

An enrichment broth is

Direct microscopic examinations are not recommended for all the following specimen sources, except

The goal of the specimen collector when collecting specimens for culture should be to

Nonroutine specimens can include all the following specimen types, except

Enriched media

What technique is used to isolate bacterial colonies when inoculating organisms onto an agar plate?

All of the following are examples of suboptimal specimens that must be rejected, except:

The best way to minimize the amount of upper respiratory flora in a sputum specimen is to follow which of these procedures?

If a test is not considered appropriate for the specimen, the following should happen:

The shipment of clinical specimens and cultures of microorganisms is governed by a complex set of national and international guidelines issued by

The specimen of choice for detecting gastrointestinal pathogens is