Materials required for sample collection

COLLECTION MATERIALS

  • Sterile cotton swabs
  • Microscopic slides
  • Postmortem knife,
  • Scalpels,
  • Forceps,
  • Scissors,
  • Syringes and needles
  • Vacutainers ( with and without anticoagulants)
  • Small hacksaw for bone specimens
  • Plastic bags and water proof pens
  • A polystyrene unbreakable containers of different volumes  and coolant pads for transport of specimens
  • Specimen should be placed in approve private transport devices to maintain a buffered and non nutritive environment to prevent metabolic damage to organisms of interest and overgrowth of contaminants.

Commonly used transport sytsem

Transport

Comments

  Swab Transport System

For most aerobic and anaerobic organisms.

  Swab Transport System
  (Cary – Blair medium)

Specimens suspected to contain anaerobes, mycobacteria and campylobacter spp

  Sterile tube
  Vacutainer tube without additives

Sterile fluid, tracheal washes biopsy specimens

  Sterile Plastic Screw  cap cups

Feces, Urine, biopsies. Add l ml of sterile non bacteriostatic saline to small biopsies.

  Paper envelope, sterile petridish

Hair, Scabs, Skin scraping for Dermatophilus spp.

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