Supplier | Transport medium | Holding temperature (°C) | Viability | Overgrowth | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
HI | GC | PC | Pepto | Prev | Pseu | |||
✓, acceptable; X, unacceptable. | ||||||||
GC, Neisseria gonorrhoeae; HI, Haemophilus influenzae; MWE, Medical Wire and Equipment; PC, Streptococcus pneumoniae; Pepto, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius; Prev, Prevotella melaninogenica; Pseu, Pseudomonas aeruginosa; TSC, Technical Service Consultants. | ||||||||
Sterilin | Charcoal | 4–8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
20–25 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | X | |||
Plain | 4–8 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
20–25 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
MWE | Charcoal | 4–8 | X | X | ✓ | ✓ | X | ✓ |
20–25 | X | X | ✓ | X | X | |||
Plain | 4–8 | X | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
20–25 | X | X | X | X | X | |||
TSC | Charcoal | 4–8 | X | X | ✓ | ✓ | X | ✓ |
20–25 | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Plain | 4–8 | X | X | ✓ | X | X | ✓ | |
20–25 | X | X | X | X | X |