Instruments used in microbiology
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Instruments used specially in Microbiology are as follows: [1][2]
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| Instrument | Uses |
|---|---|
| Incubator | used for bacterial or fungal cultures |
| Tyndallizer | a process of sterilization from spore bearing bacteria; vide link |
| Vaccine bath | used to heat vaccine containing medium gently (to around 45-55 degree Celcius) during vaccine production |
| Inoculation loop: | used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc |
| •Nichrome wire loop | -do-; reheated by flaming to red hot before use |
| •Platinum wire loop | -do-; reheated by flaming to red hot before use |
| •Sterile loops | -do-; not heated before use - these are disposable presteriliised |
| 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), eg. 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|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 produces 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 | vide link |
| Tissue culture bottles | to grow or keep alive cells or tissue from a living organism, eg. 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 |
As well as those "used in Microbiological sterilization and disinfection" (vide relevant section).
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 An inoculation loop is used to transfer bacteria for microbiological culture. |
 Perti dish |
 Agar plates |
 Image:Agar plate with colonies |
 Tuberculin Syringe |
[edit] References
- ^ Textbook of Microbiology by Prof. C P Baveja, ISBN 81-7855-266-3
- ^ extbook of Microbiology by Ananthanarayan and Panikar, ISBN 81-250-2808-0
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