What are the applications of transport media?
Posted February 3, 2024
Answer
Transport media have several applications including:
- Transferring clinical specimens from collection center to diagnostic laboratories
- Preserving clinical specimens during delays, ensuring that they remain unaltered and viable for accurate laboratory evaluation notwithstanding any delay
- Providing the environment necessary to maintain the integrity of the culture while sharing or transferring microbial cultures highly sensitive to environmental changes
- Suppressing the growth of contaminants and other microbial species that are not of interest in clinical samples
- Maintaining the viability of certain organisms such as anaerobes, obligate pathogens, and fastidious organisms, which have specific requirements
- Transporting water, food, and other biological samples for analysis in order to obtain insights into water quality, food safety, and other important parameters.
Additional resources
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