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Comparison of three transport systems for recovery of aerobes and anaerobes from wounds. 1979

J H McConville, and R F Timmons, and S L Hansen

A clinical evaluation of three commercially available transport systems (Anaerobic Specimen Collector, Becton-Dickenson; Anaswab, Scott Laboratories; and Trans-Cul, Wampole) was done, using as subjects 75 patients suspected of having infections. Holding times were purposely varied and ranged from 30 min to 48 hours. Totals of 22 aerobic species and 15 anaerobic species were isolated. There was essentially no difference among the three systems in the recoveries of aerobic or anaerobic organisms. Discrepancies appeared to be related to the order of collection and amount of clinical material available for culture. Time delay from collection to plating did not affect the recovery of aerobes or anaerobes. The three systems performed equally in the recovery of clinically significant pathogens from purulent clinical material.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001419	Bacteria	One of the three domains of life (the others being Eukarya and ARCHAEA), also called Eubacteria. They are unicellular prokaryotic microorganisms which generally possess rigid cell walls, multiply by cell division, and exhibit three principal forms: round or coccal, rodlike or bacillary, and spiral or spirochetal. Bacteria can be classified by their response to OXYGEN: aerobic, anaerobic, or facultatively anaerobic; by the mode by which they obtain their energy: chemotrophy (via chemical reaction) or PHOTOTROPHY (via light reaction); for chemotrophs by their source of chemical energy: CHEMOLITHOTROPHY (from inorganic compounds) or chemoorganotrophy (from organic compounds); and by their source for CARBON; NITROGEN; etc.; HETEROTROPHY (from organic sources) or AUTOTROPHY (from CARBON DIOXIDE). They can also be classified by whether or not they stain (based on the structure of their CELL WALLS) with CRYSTAL VIOLET dye: gram-negative or gram-positive.	Eubacteria
D001431	Bacteriological Techniques	Techniques used in studying bacteria.	Bacteriologic Technic,Bacteriologic Technics,Bacteriologic Techniques,Bacteriological Technique,Technic, Bacteriological,Technics, Bacteriological,Technique, Bacteriological,Techniques, Bacteriological,Bacteriologic Technique,Bacteriological Technic,Bacteriological Technics,Technic, Bacteriologic,Technics, Bacteriologic,Technique, Bacteriologic,Techniques, Bacteriologic
D014946	Wound Infection	Invasion of a wound by pathogenic microorganisms.	Infection, Wound,Infections, Wound,Wound Infections