87071 Culture aerobic quantitative other
Pathology & Lab
Also known as: Quantitative culture, Colony count, Quantitative aerobic
Quantitative aerobic bacterial culture of nonblood specimens. Provides bacterial colony count.
Clinical Context
Used in urine cultures (>100,000 colonies per milliliter diagnostic of urinary tract infection) and other specimens where bacterial load quantitation important.
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