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What do you want to be if you grow up Ayles?

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Are you ****ing serious? You as a medical professional don’t understand why some types of tests or samples need to be refrigerated?

Generally this is an issue after the culture is done, not before. Did you even read the first post in this thread at all?

Next time you are looking at something sterile, inspect the packaging and it will have an EO on it to indicate ethylene oxide was used. Pretty much everything is heat sterilized if it can be, for a number of reasons, primarily expense.

Originally Posted by Sooner or later

Once the sample is taken it has temperature requirements. Doesn't seem to have any temperature requirement for the swab itself.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/guidelines-clinical-specimens.html

Exactly