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Instruments used specially in microbiology are as follows:[1][2]


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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]

  • An inoculation loop is used to transfer bacteria for microbiological culture.
  • Petri dish
  • Agar plates
  • Agar plate with colonies
  • Tuberculin syringe
  • Candle jar

References[edit]

  1. Textbook of Microbiology by Prof. C P Baveja, ISBN 81-7855-266-3
  2. Textbook of Microbiology by Ananthanarayan and Panikar, ISBN 81-250-2808-0
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