correct forms
Posted By: Canadian Mist on 2009-05-15
In Reply to: Questions - sm
Subject: correct forms
Staph aureus (notice Staph is capitalized; a period is not necessary)
postop (no period)
When you have a 2-word bacteria name, the first word is capitalized generally. The second word is generally not capitalized.
A Stedman's manual for Infectious Disease words is quite useful for these words.
Klebsiella
Staphylococcus
Streptococcus
Escherichia coli
I could go on... But I won't because I'm tired and the Canadian is helping me feel no pain... ;)
Cheers!
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Subject: use of bilateral with pleural forms
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Subject: I would combine it and give the doc what they're saying. Combining forms is done often enough. nm
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