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    <title>A Swab is a Swab? - What do Microbes Think?</title>
    <description>A transport swab is essentially a kit, and has a vital role to play in the accurate and timely diagnosis of infectious disease.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:42:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Taking Care of Your Frozen Assets!</title>
    <description>Medical Wire&#39;s Viabank is a convenient, easy-to-use cryoprotection system for the storage of microorganisms.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:01:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Theatre-packed for a First Rate Performance!!</title>
    <description>Triple-wrapped Transport Swabs and Specimen Collection Devices can be handled in the operating theatre or sterile area without compromising sterility.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:00:40 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>When Two is Better Than One! - Medical Wire&#39;s Convenient Double Swab Packs.</title>
    <description>With the ever increasing range of testing procedures available to clinicians (human and veterinary) there can often be a requirement for duplicate specimens. This is particularly the case with swab specimens.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:01:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title> Streptococcus pneumoniae  - a Fussy Traveller</title>
    <description>Although such a common organism,  S. pneumoniae  is in fact rather fastidious when being transported, and many commonly used swab transport devices are unsuitable.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:57:48 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Avian Flu Alert! Need for Reliable Sample Collection and Transport</title>
    <description>For surveillance testing for H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus to be reliable it is important that sample collection devices are suitable for both collection and transport of specimens.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Urease Results Within 2 minutes! Don&#39;t Wait all Day!</title>
    <description>Get those daily screening tests out of the way at the bench and at low cost! These are a range of paper strip tests for urease, oxidase, or indole producers.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:50:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New Identification Scheme for Anaerobes</title>
    <description>Recent studies at the University of GIFU in Japan have resulted in the development of a completely new identification scheme for non-sporing anaerobes using M W &#38; E&#39;s Microring AN.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:09:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Be in control with Steriswab</title>
    <description>Steriswab Pre-moistened swabs for effective environmental sampling - Designed for the pharmaceutical microbiologist.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:43:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>NRS Transwab for Residual Contamination on Disinfected Food Processing Surfaces</title>
    <description>NRS Transwabs from Medical Wire &#38; Equipment have become established as the product of choice for measuring residual contamination, or its absence, on disinfected food processing surfaces.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:53:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Inoculating Loops - from Burri to In-Vitro Medical Device</title>
    <description>Summary of the history of wire inoculating loops and needles, from being known as Burri loops to todays CE marked Medical Devices.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Specimen Collection for Clinical Microbiology - The Weakest Link?</title>
    <description>Recent years have seen wonderful advances in the technology available within the clinical microbiology laboratory. Traditional methods have been improved ...</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Bird Flu? Trust Virocult, the Superior Transport System for Influenza A and all other Respiratory Viruses</title>
    <description>The current concern about the spread of the bird flu virus Influenza A H5N1 has highlighted the need for accurate ...</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Microring XV for Haemophilus Speciation now CE Marked and ISO 9001</title>
    <description>Microring XV is a filter paper ring device designed to differentiate Haemophilus species on the basis of growth requirements for ...</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Swab Range on Display at IAFP Meeting 14-16th August</title>
    <description>The annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) will be held in Baltimore on 14-16 August 2005. ...</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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