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Remarks
No. Container Additives Type of test For BFMP, Filaria
HTAA, KUANTAN 7 Frosted slide Gram stain for eye surface before it
& Gram stain,
Pap smear.
BFMP.
let smear air
Filaria
dry on even
is inserted into
swab.
slide jacket.
Swab culture and
Stuart transport Name of the
8 sensitivity (other
media media is written
than rectal swab).
on the transport
media. The co-
lour of the swab
handle may
Cary Blair Rectal swab culture change from
9 time to time.
transport media and sensitivity only.

Sterile Dacron
swab
Swab must
be put in viral
transport media
10 H1N1 or other virus
and send in ice.
VTM must be
Viral Transport kept cold (2-4ºC)
Media

Alkaline Peptone Stool for Vibrio
11 -
Water (APW) cholera

Stool for Salmonella
12 Selenite F (Sel F) -
or Shigella sp.

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