Description
Compact Dry Swab is a sterile sampling swab intended for microbiological workflows and use with Compact Dry ready-made media systems. Designed for laboratory microbiology, it supports surface or sample collection prior to plating or incubation steps in quality control and routine testing. Density is stated as 1 g/cm³, consistent with standard swab handling in controlled laboratory settings. This format from manufacturer Shimadzu Diagnostics aligns with Compact Dry applications where reliable, ready-to-use sampling tools streamline preparation. Laboratories performing microbial enumeration, hygiene checks or culture-based assays can incorporate these sterile swabs into established sampling SOPs. The 50-unit pack reduces handling of loose consumables and helps maintain aseptic technique from storage to use. Compact Dry Swab offers a focused accessory for microbiology teams that already rely on Compact Dry plates and related ready-made media.
This article is part of Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), in Culture media & microbiology.
Key features
- Sterilization: Irradiation
- Sterility test: complies
- Growth of bacterial test strains: complies
- Pack sizes: 50 pc(s), 250 pc(s), 500 pc(s)
- Density: 1 g/cm³
- Storage temperature: +15 to +25 °C
- Product type: Compact Dry Swab
- Sterility: Sterile
- Technical Information Sheet:
- Safety Data Sheet:
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Compact Dry Swab, sterile, for microbiology, 50 unit(s), box is the article on this page. Luminix Health distributes Shimadzu Diagnostics for laboratory use. It sits in Ready-to-use culture media (plates, tubes, bottles), inside Culture media & microbiology, in Microbiology lab supplies.
A ready-to-use plate, tube or bottle is the medium already prepared and sterile. It saves the autoclave and it expires. The fill volume, the supplements and the storage temperature are the specification. A plate that has dried out or grown a colony of its own is finished.
A culture medium is the food and the solid or liquid home of a microorganism. Dehydrated media are powders the laboratory dissolves and sterilises. Ready-to-use plates and tubes are already that. A Petri dish is the plate. Selective media let one kind of organism grow and hold another back. The formulation and the supplements, not the colour of the agar, are the specification. Reference strains are at ATCC. Methods are on PubMed. Biosafety practice is the WHO laboratory biosafety topic.
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