Assertion: colonial morphology | /r/CapableOf | distinguish potential pathogens
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text: Although automated techniques like MALDI-TOF are increasingly used to identify microorganisms in clinical laboratories, colonial morphology remains useful to distinguish potential pathogens, which must be identified, from normal flora, for which definitive identification is unnecessary,:163 and to confirm identification when automated techniques give inconclusive results.:37