Sterile, leakproof container, supplied by submitting laboratory. Specimens should NOT be refrigerated or diluted with saline. Contamination or delayed specimens cannot be processed, they will be discarded. Turn around time is approximately 3-4 days. Etiologic agents are reported by species with antimicrobic susceptibility results.
Contaminated specimens are uninterpretable and are discard.
Sterile screw cap urine collection kit supplied by submitting laboratory - on ice. Inoculated plates should be placed in a ziplocked plastic bag. Each plate must be individually labeled with the patient name and specimen collection date. Unrefrigerated specimens can not be analyzed.