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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Diagnostics and research |
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Sterilization |
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Fundamental clinical specializations |
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System non-specific clinical specializations |
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System specific clinical specialties |
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Post-mortem examinations |
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