TY - JOUR
AU - Min, Melissa Ong Hui
AB - Pathology (April 2014) 46(3), pp. 230–233 M I CR OBI O LOGY Evaluation of bacterial recovery and viability from three different swab transport systems 1 1 1 2 THEAN YEN TAN ,LILY SIEW YONG NG ,DIANA MIAO FANG SIM ,YVONNE CHENG AND MELISSA ONG HUI MIN 1 2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital, and School of Chemical and Life Sciences, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore demonstrate a fall of less than 3 log between the zero-time Summary counts and the stored swabs. Specimens held at 4–88C must This study evaluated three types of swab transport systems demonstrate a fall of less than 3 log and an increase of less for organism recovery. Swabs with transport media were than 1 log between zero time count and the stored swabs. This further assessed for organism viability over 24 hours over a study was performed to compare organism recovery and via- range of different storage temperatures. Test organisms bility from different swab types, using the CLSI M40-A consisted of aerobes, fastidious aerobes and anaerobes. guidelines. Swabs were tested according to the standardised quantitative The swabs chosen for evaluation were: dry swab with regular elution method published by the Clinical Laboratory Stan- 
TI - Evaluation of bacterial recovery and viability from three different swab transport systems
JO - Pathology
DO - 10.1097/PAT.0000000000000074
DA - 2014-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/evaluation-of-bacterial-recovery-and-viability-from-three-different-zPFNWwSW6Z
SP - 230–233-230&ndash
EP - ndash;233-230–233
VL - 46
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -