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How is a sputum culture obtained when you are being tested?
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You spit it out.: Basically, you hock up a logey and spit it into a sterile cup. If you can't hock up any phlegm, for whatever reason, they go in after it with a thin tube and suck it out.
Answered 3/22/2020
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