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What is the difference between a clean catch specimen or a catherization to check for infection in the bladder?

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Your question: Clean catch means you wash the peri urethral tissue and catch the urine in mid stream in a sterile cup. Catheterrized specimen is obtained by putting a catheter in the bladder to obtain a specimen.

Answered 1/9/2015

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