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Ensure Precision and Safety with Professional Endoscope Cleaning Tools

Ensure Precision and Safety with Professional Endoscope Cleaning Tools

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Endoscopes are essential tools used in medical procedures to look inside the body, such as in gastroscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, and more. These instruments are delicate, and proper cleaning is crucial to ensure they work correctly, stay safe, and last longer.

At YOUSUTO, we understand the importance of endoscope cleaning. That’s why we specialize in designing and manufacturing a full range of high-quality endoscope cleaning tools, including brushes, swabs, and custom cleaning kits.

For the delicate and precise nature of endoscope care, ensuring that your equipment remains in peak condition, providing accurate results for each examination.

Endoscope Cleaning Swab Brush

Why Proper Endoscope Cleaning Matters

Endoscopes come into contact with bodily fluids, oils, and debris during medical procedures. If not cleaned properly, these can build up and affect the endoscope’s performance. Regular cleaning is key to preventing contamination, ensuring accurate results, and maintaining patient safety.

By choosing the right cleaning tools, you can help extend the life of your endoscopes and keep them performing at their best for every procedure.

Our Professional Cleaning Tools

We offer a comprehensive range of endoscope cleaning tools designed to meet the specific needs of medical professionals. Whether you need to clean the working channel, rigid instruments, valves, or external components, our cleaning brushes and swabs ensure the highest standards of hygiene and performance. Here’s why our products stand out:

  1. Precision Design for Perfect Fit
    To match the specifications of most major endoscope brands, including gastroscopes, colonoscope, bronchoscope, and others. Whether you need to clean the working channel or external parts, our tools ensure thorough cleaning for every part of your device.
  2. Highly Effective Cleaning
    Our brushes reach deep into endoscope channels and tight spaces, removing debris that could affect performance.
  3. Quality Materials for Durability and Safety
    Made from high-quality materials, including pig bristle, nylon filaments, and stainless steel wire. These materials ensure durability and efficiency in cleaning while being gentle on sensitive surfaces to prevent any damage to delicate endoscope parts.
  4. Manufactured in Controlled Environments
    All our cleaning products are produced in ISO-certified cleanrooms, ensuring they meet the highest hygiene and safety standards. We adhere to strict quality control processes, ensuring every product is free from contaminants and ready for use in medical settings.

Custom Cleaning Kits for Every Need

We understand that different endoscope models have different cleaning requirements. That’s why we offer custom cleaning kits that include 2 to 5 essential components tailored to your specific cleaning needs. These kits come with brushes, swabs, and other tools to thoroughly clean various parts of your endoscope, allowing for more efficient and effective maintenance.

Our customizable cleaning kits ensure that you have the right tools on hand for each procedure, whether it’s regular cleaning or deep cleaning for stubborn build-up. With our kits, you can confidently maintain your endoscopes and keep them in top condition for years to come.

Key Features of Our Endoscope Cleaning Tools

  1. Total Length and Handle Design:
    We offer tools with varying lengths to match different endoscope sizes. Some have looped handles for easy use, while others are designed for straight handling.
  2. Brush Tip Diameter:
    The diameter of the brush tip is crucial to the cleaning process. With an optimal tip diameter, ensuring they effectively clean the inner channels without damaging sensitive endoscope surfaces. The diameter is carefully calibrated based on the design of each endoscope type.
  3. Wire Material and Thickness:
    We use stainless steel and iron wire for the central wire of the brush. This ensures strength and flexibility, allowing you to clean deep inside the endoscope’s channels.
  4. Brush Tip Closure:
    The brush tip also plays a role in the quality of cleaning. Some of our brushes feature closed tips, which prevent fibers from shedding during cleaning, enhancing both the safety and effectiveness of the cleaning process.
  5. Brush Hair Material:
    Our brushes feature a variety of materials for the bristles, including pig bristle, nylon, stainless steel, copper wire, and abrasive fibers. Based on their cleaning efficiency and their ability to reach into crevices and remove tough debris without harming the endoscope.
  6. Durable and Safe Materials:
    Made from non-corrosive, biocompatible materials, ensuring they are safe to use with cleaning agents and won’t cause damage to your endoscope.

Why Choose Us?

  1. Expertly Designed Products
    Designed by professionals who understand the complexities of endoscope care. Each product is tailored to deliver the highest level of performance in cleaning, ensuring that your endoscopes remain in pristine condition.
  2. High-Quality Manufacturing
    We manufacture all our products in controlled environments, following ISO standards for cleanliness and product quality. You can trust that our products will provide reliable, safe, and effective cleaning every time.
  3. Customized Solutions
    Our flexible approach means we can provide customized cleaning kits and tools that cater to the specific needs of your medical facility, ensuring you get the right product for each type of endoscope.
  4. Reliable Customer Service
    We offer excellent customer support to help you select the best products for your needs. Our team is always available to answer questions and provide guidance on the best cleaning solutions for your endoscopes.

Endoscopes are vital medical instruments that require regular and thorough cleaning. By using the right cleaning tools, you can extend the life of your equipment, ensure it performs well, and maintain patient safety.

At YOUSUTO, we provide top-quality endoscope cleaning brushes, swabs, and kits to help you maintain your equipment in perfect condition.

Choose YOUSUTO to keep your endoscopes clean, safe, and ready for every procedure.

Flu Test Throat Swab China Factory And Manufacturers

Flu Test Throat Swab China Factory And Manufacturers

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Influenza requires a throat swab test. Tests can be used to determine whether a patient is infected with the flu virus, and then targeted treatment can be given.

Influenza patients will have symptoms of dry cough, and they will also have dry cough symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus, so throat swab tests should be performed for patients who have been in contact with people infected with the new coronavirus or who have been to the epidemic area. Patients infected with the new coronavirus generally do not need a throat swab test to determine whether they are infected with the new coronavirus.

Covid Test Throat Swab

Covid Test Flu Throat Swab

The throat swab detection process is as follows: the tested person needs to sit facing the sampler, raise his chin, and open his mouth wide. in special equipment.

These tests include reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), viral culture, and immunofluorescence assays. All we require is that a health care provider swipe the inside of your nose or the back of your throat with a swab and then send the swab for testing. Results may take one to several hours.

Accuracy of throat swabs for influenza.

A throat flocked swab for influenza is more accurate, but there are no authoritative experimental statistics for its specific accuracy.

Throat swab testing for influenza is very fast, economical, and simple, but if the throat swab is negative.

It does not mean that there is no Influenza that may be caused by contamination of specimens, improper sampling of specimens, etc.

And comprehensive judgment should be made in combination with clinical symptoms, epidemiological history, and antigen testing.

When taking a throat swab for influenza, insert the swab completely into the throat from the oral cavity, and moderately wipe the bilateral pharyngeal tonsils and posterior pharyngeal wall with the throat wall and the reddened part of the palatine tonsil as the centre. But avoid touching the tongue. Then remove the test strip. Insert the sampled swab into the solution in the sample extraction tube

So that the specimen is dissolved in the solution as much as possible, and the results can be observed within 15 to 20 minutes.

After more than 30 minutes, the displayed results are usually not clinically meaningful.

If there are two red lines or three red lines in the patient, it means that the throat swab test for influenza is positive.

And there are two red lines, which usually means that there is influenza A or B. If it is three red lines, it means that it is a mixed infection of influenza A and B.

If only one red line appears, the throat swab is negative.

If the reaction line does not appear, the test is invalid, and it is recommended to use a new test card to test again.

Is it a cold or the flu? How to distinguish?

1. Influenza: fast and furious,

If you feel like you’ve been hit by a truck, you might have the flu. Symptoms such as sore throat, fever, headache, muscle aches, congestion and cough can come on suddenly. Colds are usually less intense and include a runny or stuffy nose. The flu gets better in 2 to 5 days, but you may feel the discomfort for a week or more. Colds come on slowly and last up to 10 days.

2. Fever: Usually means the flu

While some people have a mild fever when they catch a cold, most do not. If you have the flu, your body temperature may reach 38-40°C. The flu tends to be higher in children, and children may also be more likely to develop a fever.

3. Flu: Fatigue can last for weeks

You may start to feel very tired and sore. Fatigue and weakness can last up to 3 weeks, and even longer in older people and people with long-term (chronic) illnesses or weakened immune systems. Colds are self-limiting and you usually get better within a few days, usually 1 week to 10 days.

4. Cold and flu: Both can cause headaches

Like other symptoms caused by a cold, headaches that accompany a cold are still milder than those caused by the flu.

5. Cough: Both colds and flu can cause

Colds and flu are respiratory illnesses that both affect your airways, so both can cause a cough.

Pneumonia is a lung infection that can be a complication of the flu. If you have a persistent cough, fever higher than 38°C, chills, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath or chest pain, please seek medical attention in time.

6. Earache: Maybe from a cold or the flu

Congestion from either disease can raise the pressure in your ears. This affects the Eustachian tube, where the larynx and middle ear communicate. It may cause dull ear pain, hearing loss, and a “popping” feeling in the ears. These symptoms will disappear as the disease improves.

If other symptoms get better and the earache persists or you experience sudden, intense pain, see your doctor. You may have an ear infection that needs treatment.

7. Colds: Usually starts with a sore throat

These early symptoms tend to last 1 to 2 days, and a runny nose and nasal congestion are also common. A sore throat also accompanies the flu, but if it’s the flu, you may feel tired and have other symptoms right away.

8. Stuffy nose: Could mean a cold

Simple nasal congestion without fever and general tiredness tends to lead to a cold, although many flu sufferers also say they have nasal congestion and sneezing.

Both colds and flu can cause sinus infections. In addition to a thick yellow or green snot, a sinus infection can also cause headaches and pain in the forehead, cheeks, and bridge of the nose. Sudden head movements or strains can make the pain worse.

9. Flu throat swabs can quickly identify the flu

Flu Test Throat Swab China Factory And Manufacturers

Flu Test Throat Swab China Factory And Manufacturers

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The quickest way to find out about your illness is to go to the hospital for a checkup.

A nasal or throat swab can usually tell you if you have the flu virus in 30 minutes or less. If a test shows you have the flu and your symptoms started within the past 48 hours, your doctor may recommend antiviral medication to help you recover faster.

10. Influenza: start antiviral drugs as soon as possible

These medications can give you relief and shorten your condition within 1 to 2 days, especially if you start taking them within 2 days of getting sick. Over-the-counter medications can also relieve symptoms such as coughing and congestion. Read labels and directions carefully so you know what the medicines do and how to use them.

11. Colds: Over-the-counter medications can ease symptoms

12. Hand washing is key

Washing your hands is very important to protect yourself and not spread the flu to others. Wash your hands with soap and warm water, preferably the six-step method. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers are also effective.

Wash your face frequently during cold and flu season, especially after coughing, sneezing, or having a runny nose. What if I can’t find a tissue? Face your elbow when sneezing or coughing instead of covering your mouth with your hand.

13. Get vaccinated

There is now a flu vaccine that protects against the flu, and it’s made from a protein from the previous year’s flu cases. It helps your body prepare to recognize and fight when you’re exposed to the virus again. Note: The flu shot won’t give you the flu!

The flu shot is very important for children over 6 months of age, pregnant women, adults 50 years and older, and people with long-term (chronic) illnesses or weakened immune systems.

 

Viral Transport Media Kit

Viral Transport Media Kit

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CellMedical Viral Transport Medium

CellMedical's viral transport medium is designed to transport viruses, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, and ureaplasmas at room temperature.

Adapted to transportation for coronavirus, the virus of flu, bird flu, hand-foot and mouth disease, measles, etc. It is also adapted for the collection and transport of Viruses, such as Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, and Ureaplasma specimens. Generally collect specimens from the Oral cavity, throat, nasopharynx, anus, etc.

Virus Collection and Sampling Transport Tube

1. It is used for the collection and transportation of clinical covid-19, influenza, avian influenza (such as h7n9), hand, foot and mouth, measles, norovirus, rotavirus and mycoplasma, Ureaplasma and chlamydia.

2. The virus and related samples shall be stored and transported within 48 hours under refrigeration (2-8 ℃).

3. Long time storage of virus and related samples in - 80 ℃ environment or liquid nitrogen environment.
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Nylon flocked swab

Innovative jet embedded nylon modern technology can improve the effectiveness of the example collection from the client to the largest degree. The nylon has stuck vertically and uniformly to the surface of the swab pointer, which can boost the effectiveness of accumulating as well as releasing cells as well as liquid samples. Improve analytical level of sensitivity, No sampling recurring, and can speed up the specimen therapy. PS sticker label is very easy to break short. Adjusted to cervix wombs, nasopharynx, oral cavity, Forensic Purchase System as well as DNA accumulating, etc. Private stuffed.

Features

1. Flocked swabs provide the best sampling effect. Groups of swabs are the best choice for rapid diagnostic testing because they can better collect cells or organisms at the collection point and quickly release intact cells.

2. Enhance the sensitivity of diagnosis. The patented flocking technology turns each strand of fibre into a velvet brush, resulting in hundreds of thousands of contact points, which can better collect and release samples. The increase in the number of target cells (compared with non-flocking swabs) helps to improve the sensitivity of rapid diagnostic tests.

3. The flocking swab with rapid elution of CellMedical is closely combined with the handle and does not contain the internal fabric or other inner cores that absorb the samples, which can collect and retain more samples. This can not only provide a better sample size but also make the sample released into the liquid medium more quickly and completely.

4. Proprietary long flocking fibre flocking swab the proprietary long flocking fibre forms a network structure, which can collect and retain more specimens than traditional cotton, polyester or man-made fibre swabs. The inner core of an ordinary cotton swab will easily lock the sample, making it difficult to elute and pour it into the medium.

5. Convenient handling and transportation. Most oral, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal flocking swabs have prefabricated breaking points, so you can easily break the handle before putting the swab into the vial. Sterile flocking cotton swabs will also be equipped with dry transport tubes and media filling transport tubes and other transport materials. After sampling, the storage and transportation can be completed conveniently.

In a word, a flocked swab can better meet the sample collection needs of laboratories, hospitals and other institutions. It is the preferred tool for sample collection and elution.

 

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Viral Transport Medium

The virus transport media tube and cap are made of medical-grade Polypropylene, with No deformation after HTHP (121 ° C, 15min ), and no embrittlement under low-temperature levels (-196 ° C). it can bear fixed extrusion and dynamic effects.

The taper lower layout makes it bear centrifugation and also shaking. It's watertight. Offered with non-pyrogenic as well as DNase/RNase-free.

Model Specification
VTM-B-CM040320S 2With Nasal Swab& Throat Swab;  3ml inactivated medium;10ml tube
VTM-B-CM040311S With Nasal Swab; 3ml inactivated medium;10ml tube
VTM-B-CM040312S With Throat Swab; 3ml inactivated medium;10ml tube
VTM-A-CM040320S With Nasal Swab & Throat Swab  ;        3ml Non inactivated medium ;10ml tube
VTM-A-CM040311S With Nasal flocked Swab ; 3ml Non- inactivated medium ;10ml    tube
VTM-A-CM040311S With Throat Swab ; 3ml Non- inactivated  medium ;10ml tube
Flocked Swab With Vtm Kits Leading China Manufacturer

Flocked Swab With Vtm Kits Leading China Manufacturer

Cell medical (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., established in 2009, a swabs design/swabs manufacturer, has many years of experience in medical application molding and flocking treatment heads and swabs.

We produce flocked swabs, VTM kits, and virus transport medium, with multiple automatic production lines(Including automatic VTM tube production line, OEM VTM Tube, Flocked Swab Production Line, etc).

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COVID-19 Swab Test: What you should know

COVID-19 Swab Test: What You Should Know

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An abrupt COVID-19 has brought flocking swabs, nasopharyngeal swabs, oropharyngeal swabs, nucleic acids, antigens, PCR and also other extremely professional terms right into the public eye. Today, CellMedical will certainly offer you preferred scientific research: those aspects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening.

What is a flocking swab, nasopharyngeal swab, or oropharyngeal swab?

When nations are executing a new round of nucleic acid screening, a report is spreading out in circles. The basic concept is “the cotton bud used for sampling have reagents on them, which are hazardous”. Some netizens also left a message to the CellMedical firm backstage, saying that after seeing the pertinent reports, the elderly at home shared that they did not want to take part in nucleic acid testing, and also really hoped that the younger generation would additionally attempt not to undertake nucleic acid testing as well as antigen testing.

“The covid test swab is not the same as the cotton swabs used in daily life, but it does not contain reagents, nor is it toxic”. ( Click here to learn more )

What is a flocked swab and why choose flocked oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal swabs?

A flocked swab is used because it is more suitable for sampling and testing. The flocking swab(learn more) is made of nylon fiber flocking technology, and the front end is coated with nylon short fibers fixed in a vertical manner, so that there is no absorption hole in the entire collection area of ​​the collection swab. In this way, the collected sample is not dispersed and retained in the fiber, which facilitates faster and more efficient elution. Relevant data show that CellMedical flocked swabs can elute more than 95% of the sample collection volume; traditional cotton swabs, especially those made of absorbent cotton, cannot completely collect and elute samples.

Enlarged view of flocked swab

Enlarged view of flocked swab

Nasopharyngeal swabs – which require a swab inserted into the nose to collect samples from the back of the nose and throat – are the gold standard for collecting samples for diagnosis. But the process is technically difficult, often uncomfortable for patients, and requires personal protective equipment that may be in short supply.

Oropharyngeal swab – the oropharyngeal swab is a method of collecting oropharyngeal specimens by entering the sampling swab through the mouth – compared with a nasopharyngeal swab, it is less difficult, more acceptable to the public, and more universal. 

What exactly is PCR nucleic acid detection?

PCR (Polymerase Domino Effect, polymerase chain reaction) innovation is a wonderful creation, without the creation of PCR modern technology, there would be no modern-day molecular biology. Nucleic acid detection modern technology has likewise entirely transformed several techniques such as genetics, medication, and also forensics, allowing human beings to accomplish significant steps such as hereditary testing, viral infection identification, and also genetic testing.

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Basically, PCR nucleic acid detection: To significantly magnify nucleic acid till it can be identified by equipment detection.  Yet if you increase the size of the nucleic acid, 1 ends up being 2, 2 comes to be 4, and also 4 ends up being 8. Consequently, PCR innovation is a method of amplifying nucleic acid.

After the covid-19 contaminates the human body, it will initially increase in the respiratory system. So it can be determined whether the body is infected by finding the viral nucleic acid in sputum and nasopharyngeal swabs. After a duration of infection, typically 7-10 days later, the body will certainly create specific antibodies versus the virus. IgM antibodies show up initially, adhered to by IgG antibodies. So immunological discovery approaches can identify these specific antibodies to identify whether the human body is carrying the virus.

Will the results from different nucleic acid testing institutions be consistent?

PCR nucleic acid detection has a strict standard procedure. It is the same SOP (Standard Operation Procedure). At the exact same time, all nucleic acid labs, regardless of dimension, must adhere to the same technological demands, and also the design and building of laboratories additionally have uniform specifications. Also, research laboratory screening staff have to go through standard technical training and also acquire a nationally identified task certification before they can work. It resembles KFC’s fried chicken all use the exact same dish. Whether it’s a fast window in the station, a sizable and comfortable dine-in in the town hall, or home delivery, you can constantly eat deep-fried chicken with the exact same preference, do not fret will certainly strike rumbling.

Therefore, no matter which institution we conduct nucleic acid testing, the outcomes need to coincide.

The collection of samplings from different components has different clinical importance. Along with the popular nasal swabs and throat swabs, sputum, blood as well as rectal swabs；

Nasal and throat swabs – upper respiratory tract specimens

Sputum – Lower Respiratory Tract Specimens ( Saliva Collection Kits )

Anal swab – digestive tract specimen

Blood – Antibody Test Specimen

What is the difference between nucleic acid testing and antibody testing?

The distinction between both is a positive nucleic acid shows the presence of viral nucleic acid in the sampling. Which suggests that the infected individual might be infectious. A favourable IgM antibody shows that the patient remains at the beginning of infection. IgG antibodies indicated that the patient had SARS-CoV-2. However, we were unable to determine whether it was transmissible. Compared with antibody detection, PCR nucleic acid discovery is much more sensitive and is additionally the “gold criterion” for laboratory detection.

Therefore, in recent cases, doctors discussed that the patient has symptoms of infection.

What factors may affect COVID-19 nucleic acid test results?

1. Viral load: In summary, when the viral lots are low. False negatives may occur.

2. The coronavirus may alter, which may further impact the accuracy of the test in the future.

3. Testing method: In the recently reported genuine tasting scene, several participants reported that the swab only revolved left and right in the mouth, and it really felt like it was only touching saliva.

However, did not reach the lingual and palatal arc, and the respondents did not have nausea and also reflexes. Sex-related security action, this type of tasting has a high possibility of not gathering exfoliated cells of the respiratory tract, so it is vulnerable to missed discovery, leading to false unfavourable results.

CellMedical VTM Kits Disposable Virus Sampling Tube Manufacturers

CellMedical VTM Kits Disposable Virus Sampling Tube Manufacturers

Cell medical (Dongguan) Co., Ltd., established in 2009, a swabs design/swabs manufacturer, has many years of experience in medical application moulding and flocking treatment heads and swabs. Our flocking swabs are famous for their stable and reliable performance and excellent absorption and elution ability.

We produce flocked swabs, VTM kits, and virus transport medium, with multiple automatic production lines(Including automatic VTM tube production line, OEM VTM Tube, Flocked Swab Production Line, etc).

Reuse Nasopharyngeal Swabs Disadvantage

Reuse Nasopharyngeal Swabs Disadvantage

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Nasal swabs reused at an Indonesian airport? What are the dangers of reusing nasal swabs? 

Since the epidemic, the term nasal swab testing has entered our lives. Basically, you will be asked to do a nucleic acid test when you are on a business trip or travelling. After the test is completed, the sterile flocked swab will be processed for medical waste. However, news broke out recently that refreshed the three views, and netizens called out “there is no bottom line”!

According to reports, employees of a medical company in Indonesia were found to be repeatedly using sterile nasal swabs when testing airport passengers. At present, more than 9,000 passengers are expected to be affected.

After investigation, the Indonesian police found that the employees involved first performed Nasopharyngeal Swabs tests on passengers with sterile nasal swabs every day, then cleaned the used sterile swabs with alcohol, and then packaged them for use by the next batch of passengers. . This behaviour is outrageous.

Contents of this article

1. What are the dangers of reusing nasal swabs?

2. Why are the swabs for PCR Swab Test put together?

3.  What should I pay attention to when doing nucleic acid testing?

4. Will the swabs for nucleic acid testing be reused?

What are the dangers of reusing nasopharyngeal swabs?

The nose is a barometer of human health. When there are lesions in the body, the colour of the snot changes to yellow or green. Nasopharyngeal swabs are a test sampling method to assess the presence of respiratory viral or bacterial infections by collecting samples from the surface of the respiratory mucosa.

As a rule, nasal swabs cannot be reused. If the nasal swab is reused, the consequences will be disastrous.

If the nasal swab is reused, it will increase the risk of virus infection. Previously, a British research team found that two kinds of cells in the nose may be the other infection sites of the new coronavirus. A clinical study found that the viral load of nasal flocked swabs The amount is significantly higher than that of throat swabs. If nasal swabs are reused, it is likely to cause cross-infection and expand the scope of infection.

On the other hand, it may lead to inaccurate test results, false positives or false negatives. It may cause psychological panic and unnecessary treatment to the subjects, and false negatives may mean that the subjects cannot find out that they have been infected in time, miss the best treatment time, and even cause more people to be infected.

Nasopharyngeal flocked swab CellMedical

Nasopharyngeal flocked swab CellMedical

Why are the sample collection swabs for nucleic acid testing all put together?

This kind of multi-person mixed inspection can improve efficiency and reduce costs.

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Mixed sampling testing refers to mixing samples from multiple people (generally no more than 10 people) into the same test tube for testing, improving testing efficiency and reducing testing costs, but the waiting time for centralized sampling may be slightly longer. According to the voluntary principle, the nucleic acid test of all employees can be tested by mixed sampling technology. The laboratory testing time for mixed sample and single-tube testing is the same, which does not affect the time for issuing the testing report.

The so-called five-in-one and ten-in-one mixed sampling detection technology are to put 5 or 10 individual swabs into a collection tube. When the test result is negative, the mixed sample is negative, and the mixed sample is 5 people. or 10 people are safe;

If there is a positive result, the relevant department will be immediately notified to temporarily isolate the 5 or 10 subjects in the mixed tube, take a single tube swab again for the review, and then determine which of the 5 or 10 people is positive.

What should I pay attention to when doing a nucleic acid test (PCR test)?

Pcr test nasal swab and an antigen test difference for covid 19

Pcr test nasal swab and an antigen test difference for covid 19

Today,  many people who travel to and from high-risk areas of the epidemic require nucleic acid testing.

So, what should we pay attention to when doing nucleic acid testing (PCR SWAB TEST)?

Before the nucleic acid test: do not eat within 2 hours, do not smoke or drink within 30 minutes, carry a valid ID card, wear a mask correctly, and inform the testing personnel of past medical history or related matters.

When doing nucleic acid testing: Keep a distance of more than 1 meter when queuing, tilt your head slightly, relax, take a deep breath, and have symptoms such as dry cough or sneezing, use a tissue or cover with your arm.

After the nucleic acid test: leave the collection site immediately, and wipe your hands with hand sanitiser or alcohol.

In fact, whether it is a nasopharyngeal swab or a throat swab, it is an effective virus detection method. Although there will be slight discomfort during the test, it will soon return to normal and will not affect your health. Therefore, if necessary, we must actively cooperate with nucleic acid testing, which is responsible for ourselves and others.

Nucleic acid detection: For virus detection method.

It uses a collection flocked swab to collect a sample from the throat or nose of the tester and then conducts the test to obtain the final result.

Some people found that the flocked swabs for nucleic acid testing will be placed in a bottle(VTM Tube).

This is a mixed test, and most of them occur during nucleic acid testing of all staff, which will not affect the detection effect.

Will the swabs for nucleic acid testing be reused?

Prohibition reused.

In addition to sampling, reagents and other factors, the subject’s own reasons may also lead to “false negatives”.

Not to eat for two hours before the nucleic acid test, not to drink water for the first 30 minutes. And not to smoke, drink water or chew gum to reduce behaviours that may interfere with the test results.

There are other influencing factors before sampling and testing,

1. Please do not take antibiotics a few days before the nasal swab.

2. Do not use disinfectant mouthwash or smear on the affected area a few hours before the nasal swab.

3. Do not eat, smoke, or drink for a few hours before the nasal swab.

When Taking An Oropharyngeal Swab

When Taking An Oropharyngeal Swab Precautions

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Throat swabs include nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs.

Generally, those collected from the mouth are called oropharyngeal swabs, and those collected from the nose are called nasopharyngeal swabs.

Covid Test Throat Swab

Covid Test Throat Swab

Things to look out for when taking an oropharyngeal swab:

1. First, check personal information with the subject before sampling.

2. Check the patient’s name again after sampling.

3. Put it in a sealed bag and a special transfer box, and quickly send the sample to the laboratory for testing.

4. Because collecting throat samples may cause throat discomfort.

Prohibit:  take throat swabs after a full meal or after drinking alcohol, and you must pay attention to not drinking, smoking, or chewing gum 30 minutes before sampling betel nut etc.

5. Before sampling, avoid eating irritating and strong-flavoured food and eat lightly.

6. 30 minutes before specimen collection, do not use mouthwash with antiseptic drugs or apply anti-inflammatory drugs to the throat.

7. You should take the initiative to cooperate with doctors to check personal information and inform the medical condition, so as to facilitate cooperation.

8. In order to improve the accuracy of the results, before sampling, wear a mask to cover your mouth, nose and cough, tilt your head slightly and cooperate with the doctor to say “ah~” for collection.

9. You may feel vomiting after collection, but please do not spit anywhere. You bring paper with you, wrap the spit in the paper, and put it in a unified trash can for disinfection. Always do personal disinfection after arriving home, such as washing hands, laundry, etc.

Precautions:

Viral Transport Media Kit With Flocked Swab Manufacturer

Viral Transport Media Kit With Flocked Swab Manufacturer

1. When the flocked swab is put into the tube, it should be placed vertically, and do not wipe the mouth of the bottle to avoid contamination.

When placed in the transfer box, it should be placed vertically to avoid liquid leakage.

2. It is best to send/deliver to the laboratory for inspection on the day of sampling.

3. Appropriate specimens must be consistent with the submission form before submitting for inspection.

The appearance of the sampling tube must be clear and famous with basic information.

Specimens without basic information cannot be tested; the specimens submitted for inspection must be submitted (or electronically submitted in advance) for the screening information form. 

Submission form and other materials, the materials submitted should be ensured not to be contaminated, and not to be placed with the specimen.

4. In order to prevent cross-section during sampling,  avoided within 2 hours after the patient eats.

5. During the collection process, the throat swab should not touch other parts to ensure the accuracy of the specimens left.

6. When deciding to do a throat swab, please do not use antibacterial drugs.

7. The depth of throat swab collection and the length of mucosal contact time. When collecting throat swabs, if the sampling time is not enough or poor quality swabs are used because the subject’s vomiting reaction is relatively large, it may cause false negatives and cause the patient to delay treatment.

Viral transport media for COVID-19 testing

Viral transport media for COVID-19 testing

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At present, medical technology needs to promote positive energy!

The current epidemic has come and gone.

In particular, important medical materials such as disposable virus sampling tubes (virus transport media) play a key role.

At present, the quality of the products of various manufacturers on the market is also uneven, and there is also a risk of affecting the accuracy of the experimental results.

Make products with a realistic and rigorous scientific attitude;

Let the front-line medical staff have no worries, and provide them with a steady stream of “cannonballs”.

Below we will define the virus delivery medium and explain typical components and options for use.

What is a virus transport medium?

10ml Viral Transport Medium VTM Swab Tube Kit

10ml Viral Transport Medium VTM Swab Tube Kit

It is suitable for the collection of various influenza viruses, avian influenza viruses, COVID-19 novel coronavirus, hand, foot and mouth virus samples.

Realize the lysis and inactivation of the virus in the sample.

At the same time effectively ensure the stability of the viral nucleic acid in the sample during storage and transportation at room temperature.

And collect the sample for subsequent PCR analysis and detection.

Features:

✳ Room temperature stable storage;

After use, Stored at room temperature for 7 days, which is conducive to the collection and transportation of samples.

✳ Quick release

Using swabs to collect samples is conducive to subsequent nucleic acid release.

✳ Safe and rapid inactivation of virus samples

The preservation solution can quickly inactivate virus samples, effectively reducing the level of biosafety requirements for sample transportation and subsequent testing laboratories.

✳ Swab breakpoint design

After sampling, the designed rod breakpoint design can easily break the head and save it in the tube.

What are the components of the viral transport medium?

The sample transport medium, viral transport medium (VTM), stabilizes cells and viruses in potentially infected patient samples during transport from the point of collection to the testing facility.

These reagents are suitable for various types of viruses, including coronaviruses, herpes viruses, and influenza viruses.

CellMedical’s products for sample transport include viral transport media and saline solutions, which are both efficient collection and transport media for subsequent qPCR assays.

All sample transfer media are manufactured in a state-of-the-art GMP facility certified to ISO 13485:2016.

UTM Tube with NP Flocked Flexible Swab

UTM Tube with NP Flocked Flexible Swab

1. Virus sampling tube;

Some data suggest that polypropylene (Polypropylene) is related to the adsorption of nucleic acids, especially at high tension ion concentration, polyethylene plastic (Polyethylene) is easier than polypropylene (Polypropylene) to grasp DNA/ RNA.

In addition, when using breakable swabs, the storage tube should try to choose a container with a height of more than 8 cm to prevent the contents from splashing.

Some tubes may be formulated to contain buffered proteins and antibiotics to inhibit the growth of potentially contaminating bacteria and fungi.

2. Virus Transport Media;

VTM consists of Hanks Balanced Salt, Foetal Bovine Product, anti-bacterial prescription antibiotics, anti-fungal anti-biotics as well as Phenol Red as an indication for real-time surveillance of pH security of the service.

3. Collection of flocked swab;

The sampling swab directly contacts the sampling site, and the material of the sampling head is closely related to the subsequent detection.

Sampling swab tips should be made of Polyester (PE) synthetic fibers or Rayon (man-made fibers).

Prohibit calcium alginate sponges or wooden stick swabs (including bamboo sticks).

For example, the material of the swab tip cannot be cotton.

Products, because cotton fibers have strong adsorption of protein.

It is not easy to be eluted into the subsequent preservation solution.

 Our flocked swabs are famous for their stable and reliable performance and excellent absorption and elution ability.

Viral transport media applications

The virus sampling tube is a complete set of centrifuge tubes for sampling and transporting viruses such as influenza virus, hand, foot and mouth virus, covid test, etc. in the microbial sampling transport tube, also known as the specimen transport tube.

In the current epidemic, virus sampling is also an important part. Generally, viruses exist in large quantities in the nasopharynx of the human body.

The pharyngeal tester collects virus samples from the nasopharynx and puts them in a virus sampling tube.

 

What is a Flocked Swab Test

What is a Flocked Swab Test

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What is a Flocked Swab Test

CellMedical is in the spotlight as a key manufacturer in the COVID-19 testing supplies supply chain.

In the face of the outbreak, demand for this flocked swab and its transport medium has skyrocketed, quickly depleting supplies across the country.

Cell medical (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. is a company with more than 10 years of professional development, production and sales of flocked swabs, DNA flocking swabs, oral swabs. Disposable sampling swabs.  Disposable swabs sub. virus sampling swab. single-use virus sampling tube. Virus transport medium.

Flocked swab factory

Flocked swab factory

We have our own independent laboratory and production base.

At present, our main business includes sponge cotton swabs, flocking cotton swabs, flocking swabs, sampling cotton swabs, sampling cotton swabs, sampling swabs, medical cotton swabs, medical applicators, polyester-cotton swabs and microfiber cotton swabs.

A purifying cotton swab product.

All our products are produced in a 10,000-level GMP cleanroom.

Our GMP manufacturer

Our GMP manufacturer

And the production process is all carried out in accordance with the relevant GMP dust-free production specifications, which maximizes the quality of the products.

We currently manufacture over 1,200 different types of swabs and collection devices for a variety of industries, typically producing over 12 million swabs per day.

We are rapidly adjusting some of our manufacturing capabilities to meet the demand for COVID-19 testing materials.

Product Usage:

Nylon flocked swabs are versatile and are useful in bacteriological sample processing, covid swab tests, virological cell cultures, DFA testing, rapid and direct testing, polymerase chain reaction and molecular diagnostic-based tests, and forensic identification. ideal.

For throat sampling of respiratory viruses such as influenza, swine flu, bird flu, hand, foot and mouth.

Sampling swab product features:

1. It has an extraordinary water absorption capacity, which can increase the number of specimens collected on its surface from 20% of traditional sampling swabs to 60%;
2. Has a release rate of over 90% for the collected specimens, thus ensuring a high degree of reliability of the results;
4. There is a unique breakable design on the plastic rod, which is convenient for specimen transportation;
5. Ethylene oxide sterilization, irradiation sterilization, independent packaging;

Gene sampling series flocked DNA oral swabs are specially designed to improve the yield and quality of genomic DNA in oral swab cells. Oral cell samples are a good alternative to blood for non-invasive collection and detection.

DNA flocking swabs are suitable for human and animal use and have advantages over other DNA swabs in design. Its unique swab matrix and rapid release interface are more conducive to efficient cell collection and maximising DNA yield. The swabs have been sterilized with ethylene oxide and tested for human DNA contamination.

Application

Genotyping studies;

Veterinary Genotyping and Diagnostics;

Parenting and Genetic Services;

Forensic and DNA population research;

What is Swab Test

What is Swab Test

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If you are considering whether you should get a COVID-19 swab test, symptomatic or asymptomatic.

Under normal circumstances, the virus is spread through the air to our nose or mouth.

We have to wear masks to prevent the infection of the virus from the source.

Assuming we are unfortunate enough to carry the new crown, the virus will enter the throat through the nose and mouth, and then enter the alveoli through the trachea and bronchi.

At this time, we will use nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs. The sample is collected from your nasal cavity or mouth when the nurse’s sister gives you a nucleic acid test.

At this time, we will use nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs, which are the samples taken by the nurse sister from your nasal cavity or oral cavity when you are doing nucleic acid testing.

Due to the convenient operation and high accuracy, these two methods have been widely used. Now I will tell you about nasopharyngeal swabs and oropharyngeal swabs in detail.

What is a nasal swab test?

Specimen Collection Swab

Specimen Collection Swab

Our respiratory tract is divided into the upper respiratory tract and lower respiratory tract. The upper respiratory tract includes the nose, pharynx, and larynx. The lower respiratory tract includes the trachea, bronchi, and lungs. In medicine, the cricoid cartilage is used as the boundary to distinguish.

The nasopharyngeal swab test is a medical test method. A medical cotton swab is used to wipe a little secretion from the nasopharynx of the human body, placing it in a special incubator, and placing it in a temperature-controlled device for cultivation. Can understand the patient’s condition, oral mucosa and pharyngeal infection.

Compared with oropharyngeal swabs, nasopharyngeal swab sampling has the following advantages:

1. When collecting oropharyngeal swab samples, the sampler can see the location of the pharynx to be sampled, and the irritation to the oropharyngeal mucosa may cause the sampled to cough, nausea, and even vomit.

2. When collecting nasopharyngeal flocked swab samples, the irritation to the nasopharyngeal mucosa is relatively small if the operation is standardized.

3. But the sampler cannot see the location of the pharynx for sampling, and mainly relies on the resistance felt by the hand to complete the sampling, so the technical requirements are higher, and the tools used are also more complicated.

4. It can stay in the pharynx for a longer time to obtain a sufficient amount of specimens, which is why the positive rate of the swabs reported in the literature is higher than that of oropharyngeal swabs.

5. The patient’s tolerance is good. After the skilled operation, sampling can be performed without anesthesia, but surface anesthesia and contraction of the nasal mucosa can be performed first for beginners.

How to Use Specimen Collection Kit

How to Use Specimen Collection Kit

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What is a Specimen Collection Kit?

Sample collection kits provide all the components needed to secure samples and send them to laboratories for diagnostic. Environmental sampling and research purposes. Timely collection and processing of samples are critical to ensure accurate results and prevent analytical errors.

Specimen Collection Kit Contains:

  • Individually packaged sterile specimen collection flocked swab;
  • 10ml virus sampling tube, containing 3ml Viral Transport Media;
  • Sterilization packaging, Individual in Paper peeled pouch;

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is an RNA virus. Improper storage or transportation of samples after collection may result in the degradation of part of the nucleic acid and affect the test results;

In addition, samples that have not been inactivated virus can easily lead to indirect infection of operators.

The covid-19 sampling kit independently developed by Cell medical can not only prevent the degradation of viral RNA but also inactivate the virus.

While ensuring the test results, it can reduce the risk of biological infection during the inspection process.

Product description

Viral Transport Medium China

Viral Transport Medium Chin, VTM kits For COVID-19. Cell medical not only produces sampling swabs but also virus sampling tubes.

Analyzing material effectively starts with collecting samples with the right tools, whether it’s collecting samples from the body to aid in medical diagnosis, identifying potentially harmful pathogens from the environment.

Or collecting samples from crime scenes to aid in investigations.

However, it is also important to ensure that contaminants do not come into contact with the sample as it travels to the laboratory. Given the plethora of options available for each of these missions, choosing the right collection and transport vehicle can be overwhelming. This is where a specimen collection kit can prove invaluable.

Features:

1. Safety: Sampling and virus inactivation are carried out simultaneously, which greatly reduces the operator’s infection risk;
2. Stability: keep the sample stable, avoid nucleic acid degradation, and ensure the accuracy of the test results;
3. High efficiency: Inactivated virus samples can be detected in conventional PCR laboratories, and the collection tube can be adapted to the Tianlong automated nucleic acid extraction system, which improves the detection efficiency of samples.

Instructions:

What is the Specimen Collection Kit?

As pointed out over, example collection packages have shown very usefully in securing examples for analysis in a large range of clinical, environmental and research study applications.

Nasopharyngeal samples collected by swabbing the upper retronasal vocal cords can supply analysis confirmation for a series of viral as well as bacterial infections, consisting of influenza, COVID-19, enterovirus D68, as well as other respiratory system conditions.
Fecal samples can be gathered by anal or fecal swabs as well as can aid clinicians detect a series of intestinal microbial infections.
A vaginal swab example can help determine the visibility of Group B Streptococcus or Streptococcus agalactiae, a type of microorganisms found in the digestive system and also birth canals of a quarter of pregnant ladies, to name a few conditions.
Food sampling is not just important for recognizing the potential presence of foodborne pathogens but is a crucial step in maintaining conformity with FDA food security requirements.

How to choose the right specimen collection kit?

It is necessary to discover a sampling collection set created for your particular end-use. This consists of using the flocked swab that best matches your sampling collection needs. As an example, foam swabs might use elution characteristics best matched for environmental and also food sampling, while polyester or crowded swabs may supply a combination of collection attributes and also person comfort far better fit for medical usage.

Nonetheless, it is not constantly necessary to utilize a sample collection package created for usage with the example cpu’s very own brand name of the fluid transfer system. Validation examinations can aid clinicians, food mill and also other samplers, and also labs recognize precise and also affordable sample collection kits. Verifying shipping systems from several suppliers has come to be a common practice in research laboratories around the globe, not just to ensure sustainable supply, but likewise to compare item top quality and expense.