Methods that can ensure adequate cultures are laparoscopy, culdocentesis, or obtaining quantitative endometrial cultures employing a telescoping catheter.

The tips of the hyphae were used to obtain axenic cultures; the fungus can grow on a variety of media commonly used to grow fungi in the laboratory.

But doctors now often do not obtain cultures from patients with suspected pneumonia or other conditions before prescribing antibiotics.

Dr. Turck, of the University of Washington, said that even when doctors in teaching hospitals obtained appropriate cultures, the particular cause of many pneumonias was not identified.

A common method of obtaining pure cultures is serial dilution.

Since it is virtually impossible to obtain cultures for the gonococcus, the chances of making the correct diagnosis are considerably reduced.

If antibiotics are started empirically, then every effort should be made to obtain cultures, and the choice of antibiotic used should be reviewed when the culture results are available.

The Soviet Union investigated the use of filoviruses for biological warfare, and the Aum Shinrikyo group unsuccessfully attempted to obtain cultures of Ebola virus.

Doggy, having obtained cultures and antibiotic sensitivity tests on the girls, arrived with a new oral antibiotic, which he hoped would make them sweet and clean.

And because it is difficult to tell when a patient is infected, the C.D.C. is urging health-care providers to obtain cultures from people who may have illnesses caused by bacteria.