| Instrument |
Uses
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| Autoclave |
used for sterilization of glass ware and media
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| Auto-destruct syringes |
specimen collection
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| Bijou bottle |
a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder
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| Biosafety cabinet |
used to work with dangerous organisms and to work sterile
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| Blood collection bottle |
to collect blood by venipuncture
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| Brittany |
a process of sterilization from spore-bearing bacteria
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| Bunsen burner |
used to work aseptic on the benc
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| 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
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| Castaneda's medium / Castaneda's bottle |
used for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures in many bottles
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| Centrifuge |
to separate supernatant & pellet
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| Cragie tube |
see link
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| Desiccator |
to dry things
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| 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
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| Gas-pak |
releases gases to remove oxygen from a closed container, usually for anaerobiosis
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| Glass slide
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used to observe specimens under microscope
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| Haemagglutination plate |
for viral culture detection
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| Hungate Anaerobic tubes |
for culturing of anaerobic microbes
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| Incubator |
used for bacterial or fungal cultures
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| Inoculation loop: |
used to inoculate test samples into culture media for bacterial or fungal cultures, antibiograms, etc. Sterilized by passing through a blue flame.
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| Laminar flow cabinet |
used to work aseptic
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| Latex agglutination tiles |
for serological analysis
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| Lovibond comparator |
a type of a colorimeter
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| McCartney's bottle or Flat medical bottle |
for simultaneous solid and liquid cultures.
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| 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
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| Microscope |
to observe microscopic specimens that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
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| Microtitre plates |
mostly used for ELISA
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| Microtome
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cuts prepared specimens for analysis under microscope
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| 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
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| Petri dish/agar plate |
to act as a supporting container to hold the culture medium in
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| 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
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| Pre-sterilized disposable container |
specimen collection
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| Pre-sterilized disposable swabs / NIH swab / postnasal swab |
specimen collection
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| Pre-sterilized disposable syringe / auto-destruct syringes |
specimen collection
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| Roux culture bottle |
Bottle designed to use laying flat, useful for growing mass cultures and single or monolayer cultures.
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| Serological test slides like those for ASO, VDRL, rheumatoid factor |
provide links
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| Specimen Dish |
used to hold specimen or samples
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| 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
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| Thermal cycler |
used to amplify segments of DNA via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process.
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| Tissue culture bottles |
to grow or keep alive cells or tissue from a living organism, e.g. stem cells
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| Tuberculin syringe |
as a normal syringe or to perform Mantoux test
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| ULT freezer
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to freeze and storage of specimens
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| Universal container |
a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder
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| Vaccine bath |
used to heat vaccine containing medium gently to around 45-55 degrees Celsius during vaccine production
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| Vacuum pump |
to draw out the air from any closed chamber before pumping back CO2, O2 or N2, usually for anaerobiosis
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| VDRL rotator |
for VDRL test
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| (Laboratory) Water bath
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to incubate specimens or samples
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