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Is it often possible that klebsiella pneumoniae has been wrongly identified as e-coli in urine culture report?

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Unlikely: Speciation of bacterial colonies grown in a urine culture is pretty accurate. Of course, mislabeled specimens (e.g. From another patient) and other such processing errors can occur, but this would be uncommon. Your results are probably correct.

Answered 1/15/2018

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