Kockii, Frank E., Roemisch, Elinor, Causey, William A., and O’Dell, Alice: The urometer as a reservoir of infectious organisms. Am J Clin Pathol 67: 106–107, 1977. With the aid of epidemiologic tools such as serotyping and bacteriocin typing, organisms involved in hospital-acquired infections were traced to their hospital reservoir. One of these reservoirs was an instrument used to measure specific gravity of urine, the urometer.
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