UTM Tube with NP Flocked Flexible Swab
Whether nucleic acid detection or virus detection.
Universal Transport Medium (UTM) and NP Flocked Flexible Swab sampling swab play a great role.
NP Flocked Flexible Swab : Used to collect virus samples.Nasopharyngeal sample.
While virus preservation solution plays the role of preserving these virus samples.
which not only ensures the integrity of nucleic acid virus, but also facilitates the later detection accuracy.
How many Universal Transport Medium are there? What are the functions and differences?
At present, there are two kinds of Universal Transport Medium on the market, namely inactivated virus preservation solution and non inactivated virus preservation solution.
Inactivated Virus Transport Medium :Use to lyse and inactivate the virus.
It can protect the tester from the second infection of the virus.
Stored at room temperature for a relatively long time, saving the cost of virus samples and transportation.
The purpose of non inactivated virus preservation solution is to retain the protein shell of the virus and the nucleic acid DNA or RNA of the virus, so as to ensure the integrity of the nucleic acid of the virus sample in the process of submission for inspection.
Although there will be a certain infectious risk in case of misoperation, this preservation solution maintains the originality of the virus sample to the greatest extent and is a cultured virus transport medium.
Noted:long-term storage requires strict low-temperature storage after sampling.
Relatively speaking, the non inactivated virus preservation solution has higher requirements for the laboratory, higher sensitivity and more applications. But it is relatively easy to be infected.
As long as there are no problems in sampling and detection operations, there will be no risk problems.
How to select inactivated and non inactivated virus preservation solutions cannot be generalized, We should choose according to different needs, and the price determines the quality.
Don’t be greedy for small things and lose big ones.
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