Starplex™ Scientific Starswab II™ Collection and Transport Systems: Amies Charcoal Medium

• Designed for collecting, transporting, and maintaining the viability of aerobic, anaerobic, and facultative microorganisms
• Swab tips available in single, double, or straight wire format
• Applicators have color-coded caps with overskirt and biohazard plug-cap rings; extra-long swab shafts; and a labeled, round-bottom, spiral transport tube
• Transport tubes contain 4mL of semi-solid media
• Spiral media chamber within a seamless polypropylene tube protects the sample and keeps it immersed in media during transport
• Labels preprinted with lot number, expiration date, and product code with space reserved for recording patient information
• Gamma sterilized and wrapped in sterile, easy-to-peel envelope

Amies Charcoal Medium

• Improves the survival of fastidious organisms (especially Neisseria gonorrhoeae) by neutralizing any toxic components present