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A disposable sterile L-spreader is used to plate a tapwater sample

By Environmental Health Program
A disposable, sterile L-spreader, or "hockey stick," is used to plate a tapwater sample on selective media for Legionella
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Michigan Bacteriological Research Laboratory — Lansing, Michigan. A disposable, sterile L-spreader, or "hockey stick," is used to plate a tapwater sample on selective media for Legionella—the bacterium which causes Legionnaire's disease.

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