As an RN with the infectious disease team, you are providing an education course to new graduate nurses regarding the process of infection control and prevention.
-As the infectious disease RN,you are familiar with the concept of normal biota.A positive Escherichia coli culture would be unremarkable for which of the following samples?

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As an RN with the infectious disease team, you are providing an education course to new graduate nurses regarding the process of infection control and prevention.
-As the infectious disease RN,you are familiar with the concept of normal biota.A positive Escherichia coli culture would be unremarkable for which of the following samples?

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Escherichia coli is usually present in the normal GI flora and is expected to be found in a stool sample. Finding it in blood or cerebrospinal fluid would indicate infection, and in sputum, it can indicate respiratory tract infection.

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