Efficiency of a transport medium for the recovery of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria from applicator swabs.

Applied microbiology ·Vol. 24 ·No. 1 ·1972-07-00 ·Pages 31-3

Barry AL, Fay GD, Sauer RL

Abstract

The survival of four aerobic and four anaerobic pathogens was evaluated quantitatively on cotton swabs and calcium alginate swabs stored in dry tubes as compared with swabs stored in Amies Transport Medium without charcoal. Survival of the pathogens was markedly improved when stored in Amies Transport Medium, although there was considerable loss of viability after a few hours of storage.

MeSH Terms

Aerobiosis Agar Alginates Anaerobiosis Bacteria/isolation & purification Bacteriological Techniques Bacteroides/isolation & purification Buffers Cell Survival Charcoal Clostridium/isolation & purification Culture Media Gossypium Haemophilus influenzae/isolation & purification Neisseria gonorrhoeae/isolation & purification Peptostreptococcus/isolation & purification Phosphates Specimen Handling Streptococcus/isolation & purification Streptococcus pyogenes/isolation & purification Thioglycolates Time Factors

Chemicals

Alginates Buffers Culture Media Phosphates Thioglycolates Charcoal Agar

Authors & Affiliations

3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Barry A L

Fay G D

Sauer R L

References (5)

5 references, click to expand

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J Bacteriol. 1966 Feb;91(2):905-6 PMID: 5934500
A modified formula for the preparation of Stuart's Transport Medium.
Can J Public Health. 1967 Jul;58(7):296-300 PMID: 4859908
The survival time for different bacteria in various transport media.
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Bacteriological swabs.
Br Med J. 1969 Aug 23;3(5668):450-1 PMID: 4897751
The problem of transport of specimens for culture of Gonococci.
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Article Info

Journal

Applied microbiology

Abbr.

Appl Microbiol

ISSN

0003-6919

DOI

10.1128/am.24.1.31-33.1972

Published

1972-07-00

Pages

31-3

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7605802

PMCID

PMC380541

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/am.24.1.31-33.1972 PMC Full Text

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