microbiology instrument

• Instrument — Uses • Autoclave — used for sterilization of glassware and media • Auto-destruct syringes — specimen collection • Bijou bottle — a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder • Biosafety cabinet — used to work with dangerous organisms in a aseptic environment • Blood collection bottle — to collect blood by venipuncture • Brittany — a process of sterilization from spore-bearing bacteria • Bunsen burner — used to work aseptic on the bench Thbgb wdft ybrg thgrn rhb Name the piece of equipment that you will use to count a sample of bluebells used for anaerobiosis; a lit candle was placed in an air-tight jar so that when it went out it would be because it used up all the available oxygen • Castaneda's medium / Castaneda's bottle — used for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures in many bottles • Centrifuge — to separate supernatant & pellet • Cragie tube — see link • Desiccator — to dry things • Durham's tube — used to detect gas production in sugar fermentation media; the tube is placed in an inverted fashion so that gases produced gets trapped in it and do not float away to the surface • Gas-pak — releases gases to remove oxygen from a closed container, usually for anaerobiosis • Glass slide — used to observe specimens under microscope • Haemagglutination plate — for viral culture detection • Hungate Anaerobic tubes — for culturing of anaerobic microbes • Incubator — used for bacterial or fungal cultures • Inoculation loop — used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc. Sterilized by passing through a blue flame. • Laminar flow cabinet — used to work in an aseptic environment • Latex agglutination tiles — for serological analysis • Lovibond comparator — a type of a colorimeter • McCartney's bottle or Flat medical bottle — for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures. • McIntosh and Fildes' anaerobic jar — production of anaerobic conditions for organisms that die in the presence of even little oxygen (anaerobiosis), e.g. tetanus bacteria • Microscope — to observe microscopic specimens that cannot be seen by the naked eye. • Microtitre plates — mostly used for ELISA • Microtome — cuts prepared specimens for analysis under microscope • Nichrome wire loop — used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; sterilized by flaming to red hot before use • Petri dish/agar plate — to act as a supporting container to hold the culture medium in • Platinum wire loop — used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; sterilized by flaming to red hot before use • Pre-sterilized disposable container — specimen collection • Pre-sterilized disposable swabs / NIH swab / postnasal swab — specimen collection • Pre-sterilized disposable syringe / auto-destruct syringes — specimen collection • Roux culture bottle — a bottle designed to use laying flat, useful for growing mass cultures and single or monolayer cultures • Serological test slides like those for ASO, VDRL, rheumatoid factor — provide links • Specimen Dish — used to hold specimen or samples • Sterile loops — used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; not heated before use—these are disposable pre-sterilised • Thermal cycler — used to amplify segments of DNA via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process. • Tissue culture bottles — to grow or keep alive cells or tissue from a living organism, e.g. stem cells • Tuberculin syringe — as a normal syringe or to perform Mantoux test • ULT freezer — to freeze and storage of specimens • Universal container — a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder • Vaccine bath — used to heat vaccine containing medium gently to around 45-55 degrees Celsius during vaccine production • Vacuum pump — to draw out the air from any closed chamber before pumping back CO 2, O 2 or N 2, usually for anaerobiosis • VDRL rotator — for VDRL test • (Laboratory) Water bath — to incubate specimens or samples As well as those "used in microbiological sterilization and disinfection" (see relevant section).

• Illustration — An inoculation loop is used to transfer bacteria for microbiological culture. • Illustration — Petri dish • Illustration — Agar plate • Illustration — Tuberculin syringe • Illustration — Candle jar