 | Health and Environment in Sustainable Development - Five Years after the Earth Summit (WHO, 1991, 128 p.) |
 |  | Part II. Essential media and reagents for isolation and identification of clinical pathogens |
| | Priority grading of pathogens, culture media, and diagnostic reagents |
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Urogenital specimens for agents of sexually transmitted diseases
Common pathogens
Pathogens with high priority
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Treponema pallidum (dark-field microscopy)
Pathogens with intermediate priority
Haemophilus ducreyi
Gardnerella vaginalis (microscopic examination)
Candida albicans (microscopic examination)
Trichomonas vaginalis (microscopic examination)
Pathogens with low priority
Chlamydia trachomatis
Culture media and diagnostic reagents
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Transport media |
Priority code |
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Amies transport medium or Stuart transport medium |
1 |
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Isolation media | |
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modified Thayer-Martin (MTM) medium or New York City (NYC) medium |
1 |
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Mueller-Hinton chocolated horse blood agar + vancomycin + IsoVitaleX for H. Ducreyi |
3 |
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Diagnostic reagents | |
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oxidase reagent |
1 |
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Nitrocefin test or other b-lactamase test reagent |
1 |
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