A voided urine collected in a physician's office is delivered to the Microbiology department on Monday at 9:00 a.m. The collection date and time is recorded as Friday 4:20 p.m. You call the physician's office to verify
Her nurse verifies the collection date and time as correct. She explains the specimen was missed by the courier on Friday but she refrigerated it until the next scheduled pickup on Monday morning. You will
A) add a phenylethyl alcohol agar in addition to the routine media.
B) request a recollect.
C) process the specimen as received.
D) centrifuge the specimen and process it.
B
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