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Culture and sensitivity on the report

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Microbiology in this catalogue is five tests. None of them reads a plate. Someone at the bench types the finding into a text row, and that text is what prints.

The three cultures

Urine culture and sensitivity opens at ₹600. The sample line says mid-stream clean-catch urine, cultured on CLED or MacConkey. The rows are culture result, organism, colony count and antibiotic sensitivity. The culture row opens with “No growth / insignificant growth”. Replace that sentence when something has grown, and type the drug list in the sensitivity row. There is no table of antibiotics built in, and no S / I / R picker.

Blood culture opens at ₹1,200. The sample line says blood in a culture bottle. Rows are the result, the organism if one grew, and sensitivity. Sputum, throat or pus culture opens at ₹700, with the same idea: result, organism, sensitivity. The sample line says “appropriate clinical sample”, so the laboratory’s own label should say which specimen it was if that matters on the paper. A remark under the test can carry that.

Stains

Gram stain opens at ₹200. AFB smear, Ziehl-Neelsen, opens at ₹250. Both are a single typed line. The AFB line opens as “Negative for acid-fast bacilli”. A positive smear has to be typed over that sentence.

This is not an analyser interface. If the laboratory wants the sensitivity list in a fixed order every time, it can keep that order in the way staff type the row. The program will not rearrange it.

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