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culture-free test
culture-free test A culture-free test is a laboratory method that identifies pathogens directly from a clinical sample without first growing them in culture.
A culture-free test is a laboratory method that identifies pathogens directly from a clinical sample without first growing them in culture. In the source, it refers to metagenomic next-generation sequencing used to broadly detect microbes and resistance genes from samples.