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THE VALUE OF SERIAL COLONY COUNTS AND THE USE OF DIPSLIDES AS AN AID IN SCREENING SPECIMENS FROM CATHETERIZED PATIENTS
Author(s) -
Harper W. E. S.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb47353.x
Subject(s) - urine , medicine , catheter , surgery
Serial colony counts on intermittent catheter specimens of urine aid in assessing the significance of the bacteria isolated. The use of dipslides reduces the work load, cost and labour that would be required for continual surveillance by conventional methods in a microbiology department. Other areas of application in screeinng urine specimens are discussed.