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RE: The Tools of the Trade: Chrome Agar
So at my urologist last week I walked in at 9:15 pissed in a cup and at 9:45 they told me no infection and I was on my way. They probably just look at that agar then huh? I was wondering how they did it so fast right in the office like that. Very cool info. I took one microbio class (conservation biology major) and don’t really remember anything from it. I had a really hard botany class that semester and I was more on the microscope in there than in the microbio class.
There’s a chance your urologist used results from urinalysis, which is done by the chemistry/haematology department.
Your doctor might have felt it was not necessary to order a culture.
One thing I did not include in this post is that we do refer back to other departments’ results to decide if what we see on the plates are real, contaminants, or potential clerics errors.