Gamma irradiated. Amies Agar Gel with Charcoal Transport Swabs come with soft rayon tips, which are inert and non … CE marked as Class IIa under the Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC. Please call if you require a product not shown on these page, as this only represents a part of the available range. Simplify the transportation of throat, vaginal, wound and skin swabs with Thermo Scientific™ Oxoid™ Amies Agar Gel with Charcoal Transport Swabs. Ideally aspirate pus from the deepest portion of the lesion using a syringe. This silver charcoal dressing adsorbs toxins and other agents, which have an inhibitory effect on wound healing … ACTISORB* Silver 220 is clinically proven to manage bacterial infection and critically colonized wounds 6. On clinical indication, each patient had swabs taken from leg or foot wounds with both a charcoal swab and an ESwab™, from exactly the same part of the wound, Fig 2. The two swabs were placed in Stuarts medium and Amies medium, respectively and immediately transported at ambient temperature to the Department of Clinical Microbiology and cultured for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Swabs from the genital tract, throat, eye, ear, nose, and superficial wounds (e.g., sores, boils, and rashes) should be transported to the laboratory in the transport medium provided by the local LifeLabs Laboratory (charcoal or clear gel transport Viscose tip. Colour coded capped swabs with a round bottom tube containing transport media. Place pus in sterile screw-cap container. The presence of charcoal in the medium neutralizes bacterial toxins and other inhibitory substances and prolongs the viability of pathogenic organisms. In a peel pouch. Swab with Amies Charcoal Transport Medium. In every case a negative MRSA swab was obtained by week 3 and in 4 cases by week 1 3. Polystyrene shaft. If aspiration of pus is not possible or there is insufficient pus to collect in a sterile container, swab the deepest part of the lesion using a black transport swab.