(1) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
(2) We prepared three concentrations of methemoglobin by adding sodium nitrite to 1-2 ml of venous, heparinized blood that was "arterialized" by mixing with room air in vacutainer tubes.
(3) Venous blood samples were collected in EDTA Vacutainer tubes, and treated immediately with 0.6 M ice-cold perchloric acid in saline.
(4) Reconstructions with 53 organism-antimicrobial combinations were performed at 0, 4, 8, and 24 h in which the FLORA-STAT system was compared with two boric acid-based systems (Urine C&S Transport Kit [Becton Dickinson VACUTAINER Systems, Rutherford, N.J.]; Sage Urine Collection Kit for Culture [Sage Products, Inc., Cary, Ill.]) and untreated urine.
(5) The results indicate that aerobic incubation of Vacutainer bottles with supplemented peptone broth is sufficient in routine diagnostic work.
(6) The results show that it is not possible to obtain delta 18OPDB values with a high degree of accuracy or precision for breath samples collected in Vacutainers.
(7) Two experimental methods for collecting cord blood for acid-base analysis using green top vacutainer tubes were compared with a standard method using heparinized syringes.
(8) One hundred fifty-two blood specimens, largely from immunocompromised patients, were collected in heparinized Vacutainer tubes and divided into paired aliquots of equal volume.
(9) Rubber stoppers of a new formulation in Vacutainer blood collection tubes (Becton-Dickinson, Rutherford, NJ 07070) do not affect serum TCA levels.
(10) A total of 4828 blood culture sets was included, from which 243 probable pathogens were recovered, including 211 in the Septi-Chek system and 204 from the Vacutainer Tube.
(11) The poor reproducibility and accuracy for the delta 18OPDB values was caused by the presence of a contaminant which originated from the rubber septa of the Vacutainers.
(12) Blood from patients with suspected bacteraemia was simultaneously cultured in two Vacutainer blood culture bottles containing 45 ml of supplemented peptone broth (Becton Dickinson), five ml of blood in each bottle.
(13) The volume of blood collected into 20 ml blood-collection tubes containing sodium polyanetholsulfonate (SPS) (Becton Dickinson, Vacutainer Systems, Rutherford, New Jersey) ranged from 10 to 20 ml with an average of 15 ml.
(14) The source of this compound was traced to B-D Vacutainers used to collect blood.
(15) delta 18OPDB differed between Vacutainers and gas bottles by as much as 14% and standard deviations within the two batches of Vacutainer were 0.7 and 1.8%.
(16) Native blood was sampled either in an iso-osmotic glutaraldehyde fixative solution at 37 degrees C or in standard citrated or EDTA vacutainers.
(17) Although there were substantially more contaminants isolated in the Vacutainer-Bactec System.
(18) Vacutainer royal blue collection tubes gave significant losses of greater than 20% of some of the substances.
(19) We compared this system with a supplemented peptone broth tube (Vacutainer) for the recovery of aerobic organisms from blood cultures obtained from patients in a pediatric hospital.
(20) Linear regression with dummy variables for subjects showed a significant reduction in bicarbonate reading as volume in the vacutainer decreased.
Vial
Definition:
(n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
(v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.
Example Sentences:
(1) We recommend the shell vial technique for isolation of C. burnetii.
(2) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
(3) By means of a two-vial transport media system the samples were sent to a university laboratory and examined for viral, bacterial, and parasitic organisms.
(4) We developed a shell vial cell culture assay (SVA) using a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody to the T antigen of simian virus 40 to detect BKV rapidly by indirect immunofluorescence.
(5) With special care, plastic vials charged with albumin may also be used.
(6) The sensitivity of the shell vial assay was 78% for RSV, 94% for influenza B virus, 83% for adenovirus, and 80% for parainfluenza viruses.
(7) Only cells cultured with Opti-MEM I and Omni Serum grew consistently in tubes and vials and these reagents were compared to FBS for viral isolation and detection.
(8) The performance of MRC-5 shell vial centrifugation-enhancement and direct immunoperoxidase staining was compared to the traditional WI38 tube cell culture for the detection of Herpes simplex virus on 123 clinical samples.
(9) Traditionally, when preparing 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals, [99mTc]pertechnetate is added to the entire contents of a vial of reagent kit, and patient doses are subsequently withdrawn from the vial.
(10) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
(11) Instead of the usual 1.0 to 1.5 mL of liquid sample, the vials contained 200 microL of liquid; the vapor above the liquid was injected into the gas chromatograph.
(12) T. vaginalis in TYI in 1-ml vials with or without McCoy cells demonstrated poor growth.
(13) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
(14) The use of insert vial provides several advantages over other methods for the count correction of these suspensions.
(15) Cold-chain capacity of 30,000-40,000 vials was required for a district as well as about 500 reusable syringes and needles a year along with vaccination cards exceeding the number of women and children by 10% for recordkeeping at the PHC center.
(16) Samples are prepared in small vials containing a solution of DNPH and acetonitrile.
(17) The relative humidity of the headspace gas of the vials, which contained only 5 microgram of active ingredient, was monitored by a GC method and was then correlated with product stability.
(18) In contrast, when NPH-insulin (Protaphane HM) was mixed with regular insulin and injected in 4 out of the 7 diabetic patients, the storage temperature of insulin vials had no effect on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the mixture.
(19) The quantity of Glucantime supplied to the patients varied from 10 vials to more than 200, with or without intervals during the treatment.
(20) Parameters of electroporation were established for transfection of the shuttle vector pRSV cat into H9 cells, and a rapid single-vial assay was used for measurement of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity in extracts of transfected cells.