COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF CLINICAL SAMPLESNCRIMS, Meerut
Principles of Sample Collection:
Aseptic precautions to minimize chances of
contamination.
Appropriate anatomic sites
Adequate volume
Adequate no. of samples
Appropriate time
Appropriate container with proper labelling
Before initiation of anti-microbials
Adequate information in request form
Safety cabinets are intended to protect a laboratory worker from aerosols and airborne particles.
They will not protect the person from spillages and the consequences of mishandling and poor technique.
Aerosol particles of less than 5 µm in diameter and small droplets of 5–100 µm in diameter are not visible to the naked eye.
The laboratory worker is generally not aware that such particles are being generated and may be inhaled or may cross contaminate work surface materials.
BSCs, when properly used, have been shown to be highly effective in reducing laboratory-acquired infections and cross-contaminations of cultures due to aerosol exposures. BSCs also protect the environment.
Most BSCs use high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in the exhaust and supply systems.
The exception is a Class I BSC, which does not have HEPA filtered supply air.
COLLECTION AND TRANSPORTATION OF CLINICAL SAMPLESNCRIMS, Meerut
Principles of Sample Collection:
Aseptic precautions to minimize chances of
contamination.
Appropriate anatomic sites
Adequate volume
Adequate no. of samples
Appropriate time
Appropriate container with proper labelling
Before initiation of anti-microbials
Adequate information in request form
Safety cabinets are intended to protect a laboratory worker from aerosols and airborne particles.
They will not protect the person from spillages and the consequences of mishandling and poor technique.
Aerosol particles of less than 5 µm in diameter and small droplets of 5–100 µm in diameter are not visible to the naked eye.
The laboratory worker is generally not aware that such particles are being generated and may be inhaled or may cross contaminate work surface materials.
BSCs, when properly used, have been shown to be highly effective in reducing laboratory-acquired infections and cross-contaminations of cultures due to aerosol exposures. BSCs also protect the environment.
Most BSCs use high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters in the exhaust and supply systems.
The exception is a Class I BSC, which does not have HEPA filtered supply air.
It has been developed for the detection, enumeration & identification of bacteria & yeasts in clinical specimens.
It is an instrument used for automatic computer-assisted identification of bacteria
It mainly involves staining, motility test, cultural characteristics, a series of biochemical tests.
The automatic bacteria identification system automatically identifies the bacteria in very short time.
deals with biosafety in medical labs. universal safety precautions included. Includes updated 8 categories and colour coding for BMW management. Being a budding microbiologist, kept it focused on microbiology lab
The presentation summarises important methods and protocols of Clinical Microbiology. It may be useful to learners of Clinical microbiology at the undergraduate label. The presentation describes the procedures for collecting clinical samples, transport, and testing. It also describes the different methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing and standards.
It has been developed for the detection, enumeration & identification of bacteria & yeasts in clinical specimens.
It is an instrument used for automatic computer-assisted identification of bacteria
It mainly involves staining, motility test, cultural characteristics, a series of biochemical tests.
The automatic bacteria identification system automatically identifies the bacteria in very short time.
deals with biosafety in medical labs. universal safety precautions included. Includes updated 8 categories and colour coding for BMW management. Being a budding microbiologist, kept it focused on microbiology lab
The presentation summarises important methods and protocols of Clinical Microbiology. It may be useful to learners of Clinical microbiology at the undergraduate label. The presentation describes the procedures for collecting clinical samples, transport, and testing. It also describes the different methods of antimicrobial susceptibility testing and standards.
it contains how the sample is processed and how it is subjected to staiing, biochemical reactions, what are the culture medias used, and thier methods. it also includes the antimicrobial susceptibility testing
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Specimens for bacteriology investigation should be forwarded as soon as possible to the laboratory in leak-proof, sterile containers.
Neutral glycerol saline should be added to stool sample if there is any delay before laboratory examination.
Complete early morning urine specimen (250 ml), for diagnosis of renal tuberculosis.
Plain tube (blood) for serology.
Blood clot may be cultured by adding a selective culture medium, e.g., for enteric organisms.
Blood for blood culture (blood culture bottle, liquid, 5 to 19ml, 50 ml). The blood is injected by insertion of syringe needle through a hole in the cap and through the central rubber or plastic liner. Don’t remove the cap. Blood culture at RT, not more than 12 hrs.
For serous fluids collection (pleural fluid), universal container is used.
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2. • The proper collection and transport of clinical specimens is critical for the
isolation, identification, and characterization of agents.
Very crucial for the diagnosis of a disease
• Optimally, clinical specimens should be obtained before antimicrobial
therapy commences in order to avoid loss of viability of the etiological
agents.
• Treatment of the patient, should not be delayed while awaiting collection of
specimens or results from the laboratory and a specimen should be obtained
in all suspect cases as bacterial pathogens can still be detected even after
antimicrobial therapy has begun.
• N. meningitidis, S. pneumoniae, and H. influenzae are fastidious (fastidious
organism will only grow when specific nutrients are included in its
medium) and fragile bacteria. They are more reliably isolated if the clinical
specimens are examined as soon as possible after collection.
• Samples should be processed in a microbiology laboratory as soon as
collected or inoculated into appropriate medium for transport to the
laboratory.
3. • Use universal precautions for collecting and handling all specimens.
Biosafety concerns
• It is always necessary to choose the biological material in sufficient
quantity that best represents the infectious process for which you want to
determine the aetiological agent. The analysable substances are all the
biological samples available, from sterile fluids, samples from different
organs or systems, such as faeces, urine, sputum, bronchoalveolar
washings, aspirates, biopsies and exudates from different locations or
superficial or deep lesions, and hospital devices, such as catheters and
prostheses.
• Avoid contamination with indigenous flora.
• Swabs are convenient but inferior to tissue and fluid. Tissue and fluid are
essential for fungal and mycobacterial culture.
• All specimens must be appropriately labeled. It includes patient name,
birthdate and/or hospital number, date and time of collection, specimen
type and tests requested.
4. • Deliver all specimens to the laboratory as soon as possible after collection.
Specimens for bacterial culture should be transported at room temperature. If
transport is delayed the following specimens should be refrigerated: urines (within
30 min), stool (within 1 h), respiratory specimens. Specimens for viral culture must
be transported to the laboratory immediately on ice.
• If anaerobic culture is requested, make certain to use proper anaerobic collection
containers
• Specimens should be in tightly sealed, leak proof containers and transported in
sealable, leak-proof plastic bags. Specimens for TB should be double bagged.
Specimens should not be externally contaminated. Specimens grossly contaminated
or compromised may be rejected.
• The interpretation of the microbiological results depends, to a great extent, on the
quality of the samples received for study. Therefore, an appropriate management of
the samples is necessary to achieve an optimal diagnosis in Microbiology.
5. STORAGE CONTAINERS
• The swabs can be made of different materials: dacron, rayon
or nylon, cotton (not recommended
for Chlamydia spp., Bordetella spp. and Neisseria
gonorrhoeae), calcium alginate.
• Special transport systems, such as bags, vials or tubes with
an anaerobic atmosphere, micro-haematocrit capillary tubes
(Trypanosoma spp.), brushes in liquid transport medium for
the papilloma virus, transport medium for universal virus
(valid for Chlamydia spp., and Mycoplasma spp.) or sterile
tubes with fixatives for parasites or with preservative such
as boric acid-sodium formate for the culture of urine.
• Blood culture bottles, lysis-centrifugation bottles, tubes and
bottles with screw closure, vacuum tubes with additives
(EDTA, citrate) or separating gel (for serum samples),
sterile petri dishes and syringes for obtaining aspirates can
also be used.
6. • The consequences of a poorly taken, poorly
preserved or poorly transported sample, can
result in a failure in the isolation of the
aetiological agent or the isolation of possible
contaminating microorganisms that can
generate unnecessary or inappropriate
treatments.
7. SAMPLE VOLUME
• It is always recommended to obtain the maximum that
can be obtained and from the most purulent area.
• The minimum volume for inoculating a plate or an
enrichment broth is one drop (0.05ml)
• for bacteriological culture at least 0.5ml or 0.5g.
• in the liquid samples for each type of determination, a
minimum of 1–2ml and a maximum volume between
10 and 20ml will be requested.
• The volume for each blood culture bottle is between 8
and 10ml for adults and 1–3ml for children and solid
faeces >2g.
8. • METHODS
• Conventional
• Automated
• Collection of samples for study by rapid
techniques
• The most commonly used rapid tests, excluding
fresh examinations and staining are:
immunofluorescence, agglutination,
immunochromatography (ICT), enzyme
immunoassay (EIA) and molecular microbiology
techniques (real-time PCR and multiplex PCR).
9. • Culture media and reagents
• most samples are inoculated on sheep blood agar
medium.
• sterile samples from the respiratory tract and the genital
tract, ear, conjunctival exudate, superficial, deep
wounds and abscesses, a chocolate agar plate
• A MacConkey agar plate is added to samples from non-
sterile sources.
• There are specific media for certain pathogens such as
BCYE medium (Legionella spp.),
• Granada Agar (S. agalactiae),
• BCSA medium (Burkholderia cepacia complex),
• Helicobacter Agar (Helicobacter pylori),
• Thayer-Martin medium (N. gonorrhoeae)
• Cary-Blair medium- Respiratory samples
• Amies Transport medium- CSF
10. • Liquid enrichment media, such as thioglycollate broth
or brain heart infusion broth, will be used in sterile
samples, superficial wounds, deep wounds and
abscesses.
• Media for anaerobes such as blood agar for
anaerobes (Brucella agar), laked blood with kanamycin
and vancomycin agar or Bacteroides bile esculin (BBE)
agar will be used in abscesses, biopsies, wounds and
sterile liquids (except CSF).
• selective media can be used- for isolating certain
pathogens from the rest of the microbiota, such as
Columbia CNA (colistin-nalidixic acid) agar that
selects gram-positive microorganisms by inhibiting
gram-negative microbiota,
11. • CSF, fluid samples and sterile cavities, surgical specimens and rapid
antigen detection tests should always be processed first (within
20min after receipt).
• This group is followed by samples with a limited processing time,
such as the culture of mycobacteria or tests for nucleic acid
detection, tissue samples or recent aspirates (within 1h after receipt)
and respiratory samples (can remain 1h at room temperature and 2h
if they are kept at 4°C without the microorganisms losing viability,
except bronchoalveolar lavage, which must be processed in the first
20min after receipt).
• Stool samples should be sent in transport medium if the processing
cannot be done in a period of time between 30min and 1h.
• Finally, urine samples (they can be kept up to 8h at 4°C) and the
swabs with transport medium will be seeded. Blood cultures can be
maintained at room temperature up to 4h after receipt.
