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what are bacterial culture swabs
gel like swabs with a transport medium
what are gel like with transport medium swabs used for
aerobic culture
anaerobic culture
screening eg. MRSA
what are gel like with transport medium swabs NOT SUITABLE for
bacterial pcr
viral pcr
viral culture
what is the swab for universal transport media (UTM) used for
viral culture
viral antigen
viral pcr eg. influenza
chlamydial pcr
UTM cannot be used for
bacterial pcr
aerobic culture
anaerobic culture
swab with liquid amies media
bacterial culture and bacterial pcr
- anaerobic culture
- aerobic culture
- bacterial pcr
- screening eg. mrsa
swab with liquid amies media is not suitable for
VIRAL PCR
VIRAL CULTURE
what is the pressure room for airborne precaution
single negative pressure room
what are examples of airborne precautions
measles, chicken pox, ptb
what is the room pressure for protective isolation
single bed positive pressure room
what are examples of protective isolation patients
severely immunocompromised patients (neutropenic)
what are full precautions pressure room
single bed negative pressure room
what are examples of full precautions
EVD, high consequence infectious disease
what is the normal soiled linen colour
green and canvas
what is the normal grossly blood contaminated linen
orange
