Unit 4- Practical Diagnostics Flashcards
Abscess Collection
Scrape wall with pus
Exudate Collection
Aseptically with sterile syringe
Swab Collection
Use culturette transport system
Sample Preservation
Must be kept cold, feces should be in transport media at room temp, aseptic technique essential, bone marrow or rib from animals that have been dead for a long time
Anaerobic Culture
Anaerobic samples with normal flora cannot be cultured because they are contaminated with anaerobic normal flora
Anaerobic Shipment
Anaerobic transport system if not reaching lab within 30 min, large tissue will maintain anaerobic environment but must be refridgerated
Mastitis Procedures
Culture first few mLs of milk expressed and collect sample from within udder, collect into sterile narrow-necked bottles
UTI Procedures
Specimens must be refrigerated and cultured within 6 hours, innoculate to blood or MacConkey with sterile loop, most commonly enterics
Abortion Procedures
Must be comprehensive for all bacteria and fungi, maternal and fetal samples, fresh and formalin-fixed for histology
Fetus Samples
Placenta and cotyledons, uterine discharge, fetal stomach contents, fetal lung, liver, kidney, and spleen
Leptospirosis Abortion Samples
Midstream urine sample must be centrifuged and darkfield microscopied immediately, clotted blood samples at the time of abortion and 2 weeks later
Infertility Specimens
Uterine discharge, vaginal mucus, preputial washings, semen, urine
Cattle Infertility Samples
Should include Campylobacter fetus and opportunistic aerobes, culture within 4-6 hours, special transport medium for C. fetus
Mare Infertility Samples
Coliforms and other opportunistic aerobes
Blood Cultures
Skin shaved and aseptically prepped, 3 blood samples taken 1 hour apart