What is Amies swab?
What is Amies swab?
Contains media for the maintenance of bacterial sample during transport to the laboratory. Soft rayon tips are inert and non-toxic to microorganisms. Each batch of product is tested for performance using a wide range of aerobic and anaerobic pathogens to ensure adequate recoveries.
What is a BBL culture swab used for?
The BD BBL CultureSwab Plus is a complete cotton swab culture collection, transport, and preservation system. This product is made for throat, vaginal, wound, and skin swabs. Each cotton swab is completely sterile and comes individually packaged with an attached cap and an Amies agar gel-containing transport container.
How do you use a transport swab?
Place the swab inside the transport medium. Moisten the swab before hand with sterile saline. Move the swab from the anterior nares and direct it upwards into the tip of the nose and gently rotate gently. Ask the patient to sit in a comfortable position and depress the tongue with a spatula.
What is Liquid Amies used for?
Puritan® Liquid Amies Collection and Transport System is intended for use in the collection and transport of clinical specimens containing aerobic, anaerobic and fastidious bacteria from the patient to the laboratory for bacteriological examination and culture.
What is Amies?
noun, plural a·mies [a-mee; English a-meez, ah-meez]. French. a female friend. a girlfriend or female lover.
What is BactiSwab used for?
INTENDED USE Remel BactiSwab® collection and transport systems are sterile swabs with transport media for use in collection and transportation of clinical specimens to the laboratory for microbiological examination when swab collection is appropriate.
What is Culturette?
what is a culturette? a sterile swab with a soft tip, protected by a plastic sleeve, used to collect cultures from various sources; an ampule is crushed to protect the integrity of the specimen after collection.
How do you use the Amies transport media?
Uses of Amies transport medium:
- Collect the sample on sterile cotton swab and immense in Amies transport medium, cutting off the swab stick to allow bottle to capped tightly.
- Transport to laboratory within 24 hours.
What is the composition of swabswabs?
Swabs were inoculated with 100mL of 107 CFU/ml saline organism suspensions of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (2 strains NGA, NGS), Neisseria meningitidis (2 strains NMA, NMC), Streptococcus pneumoniae (SPN), Streptococcus pyogenes (SPY), Haemophilus influenzae (HI), Peptostreptococcus anaerobius (PA) and Fusobacterium nucleatum (FN).
How long will Copan transysteme maintain viability of microorganisms?
Copan Transysteme will maintain viability of many microorganisms for 24 to 48 hours. For fastidious bacteria, such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Streptococcus pneumonia and anaerobes, swab specimens should be p ated directly onto culture medium or transported immediately to the laboratory and cultured within 24 hours.
What is eswab used for?
Introduction to ESwab™ ESwab™ combines a COPAN-invented flocked swab with 1mL of Liquid Amies in a plastic, screw cap tube. The innovative system elutes over 90% of patient specimen into the liquid medium. The result is evidence-based, improved pathogen recovery, expanded testing capabilities, and better patient care.
What type of agar is used for aerobic culture?
Choice of Amies or Stuart Agar Gel medium (with or without charcoal), commonly used for aerobic and anaerobic cultures 1. Less than two nonviable bacterial cells per ten high power microscopic fields. No activation step required – simply uncap, collect and recap the tube.
