Recovery of aerobic gram-negative bacteria from the Copan Eswab transport system after long-term storage
| Autor: | Damy Wulms, Heiman F. L. Wertheim, Jakko van Ingen, Marlien Kolmus, Sofie C. M. Tops, Eva Kolwijck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Time Factors Gram-negative bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae 030106 microbiology Colony Count Microbial Bacterial growth medicine.disease_cause Specimen Handling Feces 03 medical and health sciences All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center 0302 clinical medicine Refrigeration Enterobacterales Escherichia coli medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Food science Bacteriological Techniques Microbial Viability Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria biology Chemistry Pseudomonas aeruginosa Temperature General Medicine biology.organism_classification Culture Media lnfectious Diseases and Global Health Radboud Institute for Health Sciences [Radboudumc 4] Infectious Diseases Bacterial Viability Transport system |
| Zdroj: | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 98 Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 98, 1 |
| ISSN: | 0732-8893 |
| Popis: | We evaluated the Copan Eswab transport system for the quantitative recovery of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa after 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 days of storage at room and refrigerator temperatures, and 7 and 30 days of storage at −80 °C and −20 °C using mono- and polymicrobial samples. The study was based on Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) M40-A2 standard procedures on the quality control of microbiological transport systems. Eswab met the CLSI standards at room and refrigerator temperatures for all (combinations of) bacterial strains tested. At room temperature, after 24 h, bacterial growth was observed. At −80 °C, bacterial viability was maintained in monomicrobial samples; however, in polymicrobial samples, P. aeruginosa recovery was compromised. Storage at −20 °C was unsuitable. We conclude that specimens collected using Eswab should be transported to the laboratory as soon as possible. If transport or processing is delayed, specimens should preferably be stored at refrigerator temperatures. |
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