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  • Title: Screening for bacteriuria by the miniature culture technique.
    Author: Duncanson RL, St Geme JW.
    Journal: Calif Med; 1968 Aug; 109(2):112-5. PubMed ID: 4877091.
    Abstract:
    Two hundred and eighteen urine specimens were cultured in duplicate to compare the reliability of a miniature culture technique with a more standard, calibrated loop-method for quantitative urinary bacteriology. The new method appears to be reliable: the rate of false negative results was 2.5 percent and of false positive 3.6 percent. The correlation with the standard method was best in the ranges of 0 to 10,000 and greater than 100,000 colonies per milliliter. The technique is simple, quick, and easily applicable to the physician's office laboratory.
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