While nominally true for many bacteria, there’s still overwhelmingly many we can’t culture, and those we can take many different media to cultivate.
“Bacterial culture is frequently more difficult and often requires more training than molecular techniques”[1]
There’s a good chance that many doctors are stuck in a mindset that culturing is too difficult, costly, and time consuming to be effective for all but the most resistant infections, but I’m not sure they’re wrong.
“Bacterial culture is frequently more difficult and often requires more training than molecular techniques”[1]
There’s a good chance that many doctors are stuck in a mindset that culturing is too difficult, costly, and time consuming to be effective for all but the most resistant infections, but I’m not sure they’re wrong.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4284306/