About this item
Saline products are recommended for procedures that require the use of an isotonic diluent, as well as for use in preparing test suspensions of organisms.
- Provides osmotic protection for microbial cells
- Adjusts turbidity of bacterial suspensions
- Maintains cell viability and integrity
Normal saline is used for preparing microbial suspensions when it is necessary to deliver a set number of microbes to an identification test battery, to antimicrobial agents, or to growth media used for disk susceptibility testing.
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