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Samples obtained for culture should be placed in a sterile specimen container. Sterile saline maybe needed to prevent drying of the specimen. Attention should be paid to minimize contamination although it is recognized that the endoscope and the organs throughout which it is passed are not sterile and is not possible to obtain a purely sterile access into the gastrointestinal lumen. Contamination with oropharyngeal organisms or colonic organisms is not uncommon.