Specimen Collection and Transport, Anaerobic Culture Techniques, and Identification of Anaerobes

Excellent progress has been made in recent years in the development and refinement of technical materials used for transporting specimens and growing and identifying anaerobes. Several good systems for maintaining swabs and vials for transporting liquid specimens are commercially available. Anaerobi...

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Published in:Reviews of infectious diseases 1984-03, Vol.6, p.S51-S58
Main Author: Citron, D M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Actinomyces - isolation & purification
Anaerobic bacteria
Bacteria, Anaerobic - classification
Bacteria, Anaerobic - growth & development
Bacteria, Anaerobic - isolation & purification
Bacteriological Techniques - instrumentation
Bacteroides
Bacteroides - classification
Bacteroides - isolation & purification
Biochemistry
Blood
Clinical Anaerobic Bacteriology
Clostridium
Clostridium - classification
Clostridium - isolation & purification
Culture Media
Fusobacteria
Fusobacterium - classification
Fusobacterium - isolation & purification
Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria - isolation & purification
Gram-Positive Bacteria - isolation & purification
Medical syringes
Peptococcaceae - isolation & purification
Reagent Kits, Diagnostic
Rubber
Software
Specimen Handling - instrumentation
Specimen Handling - methods
Specimens
Spores
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Summary:Excellent progress has been made in recent years in the development and refinement of technical materials used for transporting specimens and growing and identifying anaerobes. Several good systems for maintaining swabs and vials for transporting liquid specimens are commercially available. Anaerobic bags are useful for transporting unusual specimens, such as tissue or bone, and are also a convenient way to incubate small numbers of plates. Several different types of anaerobic chambers, with or without gloves, and separately enclosed incubators are being used by an increasing number of laboratories. Prereduced anaerobically sterilized plates and biochemicals in tubes are available from several commercial sources. A new rapid identification microsystem based on tests for preformed enzymes permits identification of many clinically significant anaerobes to the species level in 4 hr.
ISSN:0162-0886