Failure to refrigerate a urine culture specimen when a long time will elapse between specimen collection and delivery to the laboratory is most apt to result in:

A) an abnormally high colony count
B) an abnormally low white blood cell count
C) contamination of the specimen by members of the patient's indigenous microflora
D) death of the pathogen


A) an abnormally high colony count

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