Inoculating Loops and Needles
Inoculating Loops and Needles
Devices used for inoculation, serial dilution, sterile sampling, sample transfer, and microbiological sample spreading; available in materials such as polymers, aluminum, and other metals. Includes disposable and color-coded products.
Inoculating loops and needles (sometimes called microstreakers or inoculating wands) are hand-held devices for inoculating plated or tubed growth media with micro-organisms such as bacteria or yeasts prior to incubation, multiplication, and growth. The inoculum is typically streaked onto, or stabbed into, solid agar-based media, or simply introduced and dispersed into liquid media. Inoculating loops and needles are also useful for sampling and transferring small quantities of micro-organism prior to further analysis, microscopic examination, or serial dilution.
Inoculating loops and needles consist of a handle with a terminal loop or needle that is designed to pick up and transfer a small quantity of inoculum (typically 1 to 10 μL) from a donor culture to the growth medium of choice. Some loops are calibrated and color-coded to transfer semi-quantitative amounts of inoculum.
Microspec™ Sterile Plastic Inoculation Loops (Volume: 10μL)
Retrieves an inoculum from culture of microorganisms.
Thermo Scientific™ Nunc™ Disposable Loops and Needles
Easily identify these color-coded disposable loops and needles, precision molded from nontoxic (USP Class VI) polystyrene material.
Brand™ Polystyrene Inoculation Loop
Permits gentle streaking without damaging the nutrient surface. BRAND™ Polystyrene Inoculation Loops are highly flexible, with loop at one end and needle at the other or loops at both ends.
Microspec™ Sterile Plastic Inoculation Loops (Volume: 1μL)
Designed for quantitative procedures such as sampling, serial dilutions, as well as for bacterial inoculation.
BRAND™ Inoculation Loop with Needle
Inoculation Loop with Needle designed for inoculation of nutrient media.
Wheaton™ 10 μL Inoculation Loop
Inoculation Loop for delivering a known volume of fluid sample to enable accurate microbiological analysis
Wheaton™ 1 μL Inoculation Loop
Inoculation loop calibrated to deliver a known volume of fluid sample to enable accurate microbiological analysis.
Corning™ Sterile Polystyrene Inoculating Loops
Constructed of flexible polystyrene for optimum retrieval of an inoculum from a culture. Gosselin™ Sterile Polystyrene Inoculating Loops provide a superior solution for transferring microscopic organisms, inoculum, or streaking.
Thermo Scientific™ Nunc™ Disposable Loops and Needles, needle
Easily identify these color-coded disposable loops and needles, precision molded from nontoxic (USP Class VI) polystyrene material.
Disposable Inoculation Loop, 1μL
Manufactured from polystyrene for strength and flexibility. Microspec™ Disposable Inoculation Loops are ideal for the cultivation of microbes on plates by transferring inoculum for streaking and to transfer microscopic organisms.
Disposable Inoculation Loop, 10μL
Manufactured from polystyrene for strength and flexibility. Microspec™ Disposable Inoculation Loops are ideal for the cultivation of microbes on plates by transferring inoculum for streaking and to transfer microscopic organisms.
Disposable Inoculation Loop
Manufactured from polystyrene for strength and flexibility. Microspec™ Disposable Inoculation Loops are ideal for the cultivation of microbes on plates by transferring inoculum for streaking and to transfer microscopic organisms.
Microspec™ Sterile Plastic Inoculation Loops (Volume: 5μL)
Constructed of flexible polystyrene for optimum retrieval of an inoculum from a culture
Microspec™ Plastic Inoculation Loops
Available as aseptic manufactured or ethylene oxide sterilized.
