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.
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.
Fisherbrand™ Disposable Inoculating Loops and Needles, Flexible Needle and Loop
For quantitative procedures such as sampling, serial dilutions and urine counts, as well as for bacterial inoculation. Fisherbrand™ Disposable Inoculating Loops and Needles, Length: 9 in. (23cm) are molded from a specially formulated, biologically inert polymer.
Copan Diagnostics Calibrated Disposable Inoculating Loops and Needles in Zip Lock Pack
Calibrated 1 and 10μL plastic disposable inoculating loops and needles
Fisherbrand™ Disposable Inoculating Loops and Needles
Designed for quantitative procedures such as sampling, serial dilutions, as well as for bacterial inoculation. Fisherbrand™ Disposable Inoculating Loops and Needles, Length: 8 in. (20cm) are precision molded from a specially formulated, biologically inert polymer.
Fisherbrand™ Inoculating Nichrome Loops 8 in. Handle Braided/Twisted Wire Loop
Fisherbrand™ Innoculating loops are available in a variety of gauges, loop hole sizes, and wire types to accommodate an array of laboratory requirements.
Fisherbrand™ Inoculating Nichrome Loops 8 in. Handle
Fisherbrand™ Innoculating loops are available in a variety of gauges, loop hole sizes, and wire types to accommodate an array of laboratory requirements.
Thermo Scientific™ Disposable Calibrated Inoculating Loops
Select, inoculate or transfer microbiological sample volume on media plates with these calibrated inoculating loops.
Greiner Bio-One Disposable Inoculating Loops
For use in picking single colonies. Greiner Bio-One Disposable Inoculating Loops are flexible for collection and inoculation.
Globe Scientific Sterile Rigid Inoculating Loops with Needles
These disposable inoculation loops and needles offer the most convenient and safest way of streaking culture media. Molded from a special medical grade of polystyrene (PS), they offer a strong, rigid feel to provide comfortable, stable and uniform streaking.
Thermo Scientific™ Reusable Calibrated Inoculating Loops
Select, inoculate or transfer a well-defined microbiological sample volume on media plates with these reusable calibrated inoculating loops.
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.
Fisherbrand™ Nichrome/Aluminum Inoculating Loops
Fisherbrand Inoculating Loops consist of a nichrome wire loop mounted to an aluminum handle. Inoculating loops are used to introduce microorganisms into a culture medium.