A 65-Year-Old Homeless Male Presents to an Urgent Care Clinic

Multiple Choice

A 65-year-old homeless male presents to an urgent care clinic with a deep laceration on his left arm. He states that he cut his arm on an old piece of scrap metal two days prior. His wound is red, tender, hot to the touch, and has yellow drainage. The RN collects a sample of the drainage and sends it to the laboratory for microbial analysis, per provider orders.
-Cultures and specimens pose a potential health hazard and require proper handling and disposal via specific medical waste policies.Some facilities are regulated to maintain living catalogs of specimens that may be subcultured into a fresh medium for research and educational purposes.Such collections are referred to as ________.

A) live microbes
B) stock cultures
C) reserved specimens
D) bacteriological reserve