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OK, so if it's first going to a local lab for AFB culturing, then it makes sense that you don't get the colony count. If you send the sputum sample directly to NJH, they go through a long painstaking process of hand counting the colonies on a grid. There are very few labs that do this. Local labs will just test to see if it's AFB positive.