Instruments used specially in
microbiology are as follows:
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Instrument list[edit]
autoclave used for sterilization of glass ware and media
| Instrument |
Uses |
| Incubator |
used for bacterial or fungal cultures |
| brittany |
a process of sterilization from spore-bearing bacteria |
| Vaccine bath |
used to heat vaccine containing medium gently to around 45-55 degrees Celsius during vaccine production |
| Thermal cycler |
used to amplify segments of DNA via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process. |
| Inoculation loop: |
used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc. |
| •Nichrome wire loop |
used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or
fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; reheated by flaming to red hot
before use |
| •Platinum wire loop |
used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or
fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; reheated by flaming to red hot
before use |
| •Sterile loops |
used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or
fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc.; not heated before use—these are
disposable presterilised |
| Petri dish/agar plate |
to act as a supporting container to hold the culture medium in |
| McIntosh and Filde's anaerobic jar |
production of anaerobic conditions for organisms that die in the presence of even little oxygen (anaerobiosis), e.g. tetanus bacteria |
| Gas-pak |
releases gases to remove oxygen from a closed container, usually for anaerobiosis |
| Vacuum pump |
to draw out the air from any closed chamber before pumping back CO2, O2 or N2, usually for anaerobiosis |
| Durham's tube |
used to detect gas production in sugar fermentation media; the tube is placed in an inverted fashion so that gases produced get trapped in it and do not float away to the surface |
| Bijou bottle |
a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder |
| Blood collection bottle |
to collect blood by venipuncture |
| Castaneda's medium / Castaneda's bottle |
used for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures in one bottle |
| Universal container |
a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder |
| Flat medical bottle or McCartney's bottle |
for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures. |
| Tuberculin syringe |
as a normal syringe or to perform Mantoux test |
| Desiccator |
to dry things |
| Pre-sterilized disposable container |
specimen collection |
| Pre-sterilized disposable syringe / auto-destruct syringes |
specimen collection |
| Pre-sterilized disposable swabs / NIH swab / postnasal swab |
specimen collection |
| VDRL rotator |
for VDRL test |
| Serological test slides like those for ASO, VDRL, rheumatoid factor |
vide links |
| Lovibond comparator |
a type of a colorimeter |
| Microtitre plates |
for ELISA |
| Haemagglutination plate |
for viral culture detection |
| Latex agglutination tiles |
for serological analysis |
| Cragie tube |
see link |
| Tissue culture bottles |
to grow or keep alive cells or tissue from a living organism, e.g. stem cells |
| Candle jar |
historically used for anaerobiosis; a lit candle was placed in as
air-tight jar such that when it went out it would be because it used up
all the available oxygen |
Centrifuge to separate suparnatent & pallete
As well as those "used in microbiological sterilization and disinfection" (see relevant section).
Image gallery[edit]
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An inoculation loop is used to transfer bacteria for microbiological culture.
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References[edit]
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| Sterilization |
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| Post-mortem examinations |
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