Culture Media Tube: Blood Serum, According to Dr. Koch. No. 7

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Blood Serum According to Dr. Koch, No. 7
Description:

Glass test tube with paper label and cotton wool stopper. Dried culture media in tube. Paper label has lines for recording "Name" and "Date". The tube is one of 50 tubes in the Parke, Davis & Company Culture Media Set (MG.142336.01). German bacteriologist, Robert Koch (1843-1910), used coagulated blood serum to culture Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. In diagnostic work, the culture tube was innoculated with a sputum specimen from the patient.

Date Made: 1898

Maker: Parke, Davis and Company

Location: Currently not on view

Place Made: United States: Michigan, Detroit

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Health & Medicine, The Antibody Initiative, Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections

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Credit Line: Gift of Parke, Davis & Company

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MG.142336.12Accession Number: 33542Catalog Number: 142336.012

Object Name: biologicalculture media test tube, serumOther Terms: Culture Media, Blood Serum; Biologicals; Drugs

Measurements: overall: 3 5/8 in x 7/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 2.2225 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-8099-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_719546

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