CULTURE AND SENSITIVITY

DEFINITION

INDICATIONS

PREPARATION

RESULTS

PROCEDURE

🖊 : Culture and Sensitivity. A culture is a test to find germs (such as bacteria or a fungus) that can cause an infection. A sensitivity test checks to see what kind of medicine, such as an antibiotic, will work best to treat the illness or infection.

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• Determine the right antibiotic treatment for an infection

• Monitor changes in bacterial resistance to antibiotics

• Recurring urinary tract infection (UTI)

BOYS

Doctor will get this sample by swabbing the infected area
Blood, Urine, Sputum (Spit)

GIRLS

Blood, Urine, Sputum (Spit)

✅The doctor will send the sample to a laboratory (where it may be taken from patient’s blood, urine, sputum, a pus containing wound, inside the cervix)

✅The sample will be spread on a special growing surface.

✅ The bacteria will form colonies, or large groups of bacteria, that will each be exposed to different antibiotics.

⭐ Susceptible
Usually choose an appropriate drug from the report that was listed as “susceptible,” meaning it can fight the bacteria.

⭐ Intermediate
Prescribed a drug from the “intermediate” groupIf there are no known drugsavailable in the susceptible group take a higher dosage and for a longer time period.

⭐ Resistant
Combination of antibiotics if a bacterium is “resistant” to all of the drugs that are usually used to treat an infection combination of drugs is meant to work together to fight the bacteria.