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Tina is a technician in a small hospital laboratory. She worksin the hematology, chemistry, and microbiology sections. On thismorning, she was in microbiology examining culture plates that hadbeen set up the previous day. She examined BA and MAC plates set upfor a urine culture. Both plates had many colonies growing, and thecolonies on each plate appeared to have the same morphology. Tinacounted 132 colonies on the MAC plate. From the requisition slip,she saw that the person who set the culture up had used a 0.001-mLloop. Tina reported a colony count of 13,200/mL for the culture. 1.Evaluate Tina’s performance in evaluating the urine culture. 2.Does the patient have a urinary tract infection?

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Nestor Rutherford
Nestor RutherfordLv2
30 Sep 2019

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