Bacteriological Swabs

Evaluation of bacteriological transport swabs.

Ten commercial transport swabs were evaluated for their ability to preserve bacteria for 24 and 48 hours. Microorganisms included ATCC strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative aerobes and anaerobes. There was a wide variation in performance. Swabs using Amies plus charcoal medium or Stuart's medium had better recovery rates than those using Amies medium alone. The nature of the tips of the sw...

Evaluation of bacteriological swabs and transport media in the recovery of group B streptococci on laboratory media.

The survival of group B streptococci on a variety of swabs, held either in their containers or in transport media for periods of up to 48 hours, at room temperature and at 4 degrees C, has been assessed. Results indicated that holding swabs in transport media did not favour prolonged survival of the streptococci and that the yield of organisms was much greater from swabs held in their ordinary ...

Bacteriological Technique

Bronchiectasis: a bacteriological profile

The occurrence of bronchiectasis can involve a combination of many environmental factors, including infection. The aim of our work is to determine the bacteriological profile of bronchiectasis. This is a retrospective study of 100 patients hospitalized in between January 2010 and July 2013. The average age was 48 years with a 58% female predominance. Symptomatology was by a bronchial syndrome i...

Fungal Contamntion of Bacteriological

dialysis and non-dialysis group were comparable for age and sex and whether the apparent differences in small numbers of patients was statistically significant. We studied the immediate effect of dialysis and found no significant difference in the peak acid output measured in the same 14 patients before and after dialysis,2 but on reviewing our data we find that the basal acid output was signif...