Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Mr. Nowak is a homeless patient who presented to your clinic today with an injury to his left arm. He injured it on an old piece of scrap metal. His wound is red, hot, and tender with purulent drainage. You swab the site and send it to the laboratory for microbial analysis.
-Cultures and specimens pose a potential employee and public health hazard,and require proper handling and disposal via specific medical waste policies.Some facilities,such as the ATCC,are regulated to maintain living catalogs of specimens for research and educational purposes.Such collections are referred to as

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
  Mr. Nowak is a homeless patient who presented to your clinic today with an injury to his left arm. He injured it on an old piece of scrap metal. His wound is red, hot, and tender with purulent drainage. You swab the site and send it to the laboratory for microbial analysis. 
-Cultures and specimens pose a potential employee and public health hazard,and require proper handling and disposal via specific medical waste policies.Some facilities,such as the ATCC,are regulated to maintain living catalogs of specimens for research and educational purposes.Such collections are referred to as

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Stock cultures are collections of living microbes that are maintained for research and educational purposes. They require proper handling and disposal through specific medical waste policies to prevent employee and public health hazards. "Live microbes" and "dangerous microbes" are not commonly used terms to describe collections of specimens, and "bacteriological reserve" is not a commonly recognized term in this context.

Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question