Preanalytical requirements: Focus on urine culture
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Preanalytical requirements of urinalysis
Urine may be a waste product, but it contains an enormous amount of information. Well-standardized procedures for collection, transport, sample preparation and analysis should become the basis of an effective diagnostic strategy for urinalysis. As reproducibility of urinalysis has been greatly improved due to recent technological progress, preanalytical requirements of urinalysis have gained im...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BLDE University Journal of Health Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2468-838X
DOI: 10.4103/bjhs.bjhs_26_19