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The utility of Amies charcoal bacteriology swabs for storage of canine urine prior to culture.

G OlivaresD HermesEdgar García ManzanillaK HughesL ClarkeJames Warland
Published in: The Journal of small animal practice (2020)
Bacteriology swabs stored in Amies charcoal transport media should be considered an alternative method to preserve canine urine sample when immediate processing for quantitative bacterial culture is not possible. The sensitivity of culturing plain urine, stored for 48 hours in a sterile tube, for detection of bacteriuria, was higher than previously reported.
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