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Swab guide
Use
Swab type
Instructions
Bacterial swab – microscopy and culture
Culture and sensitivity
Most sites and lesions
Please refer to instructions
on packaging
Blue top swab
Product #11346
To collect nasopharyngeal swab for culture and sensitivity please use orange top swab (thin shaft)
– available upon request – Product #24132 and place in the medium provided with blue swab Product #11346
PCR swab (flocked swab, no transport medium)
–
1 PCR swab preferred for each test
Herpes simplex
and/or
Varicella zoster
Red top swab
– supplied by default –
Product #24159
Orange top swab (thin shaft)
– available upon request –
Product #24132
Swab from lesion
Bordetella pertussis
Posterior pharynx
or nasopharynx swab
Respiratory viruses
Throat and nose swabs
Trichomonas vaginalis/other
genital PCR
Vaginal/urethal swab
Chlamydia/Gonorrhoea PCR
Female
Chlamydia trachomatis
and/or N.gonorrhoeae
Female PCR swab –
Product #31588
Cervical/vaginal/eye PCR swab
Male
Chlamydia/Gonorrhoea
Urine – first part void
Swab for other viral tests
–
the majority of viruses are now detected by PCR as above
Antigen detection
e.g. measles
Green top swab –
Product #10989
Please refer to instructions on
packaging
Viral culture
Please contact microbiologist
02 98 555 312