An RN is working at a public health clinic that sees many patients with infectious disease. Ms. Hungh, a Burmese immigrant, presents to the clinic with an interpreter, complaining of fatigue, weight loss, persistent cough, and rust-colored sputum. The interpreter explains that Ms. Hungh has had this cough for many months in her home country and, now that she is in America, is seeking treatment for her condition.
-Culturing of the sputum resulted in the growth of distinct colonies and further isolation by subculturing is now needed.The RN understands that isolation is accomplished by taking a bit of growth from an individual colony and inoculating a separate medium,resulting in the production of a(n)________.

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Inoculating a separate medium with a bit of growth from an individual colony results in the production of a pure culture. This is done to isolate and identify the specific microorganism causing the infection. A simple culture refers to a culture containing only one type of microbe, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is isolated. A mixed culture contains more than one type of microbe.

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