Culture Media Tube: Blood Serum, According to Dr. Koch. No. 7
date: label: date made
content: 1898
name: label: maker
content: Parke, Davis and Company
notes: label: Description
content: 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 <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. In diagnostic work, the culture tube was innoculated with a sputum specimen from the patient.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Michigan, Detroit
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Infectious Disease, Allergy, and Immunotherapy Collections
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Parke, Davis & Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.142336.09
label: catalog number
content: 142336.09
label: accession number
content: 33542
objectType: label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: culture media test tube, serum
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: blood serum culture media (contents material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton wool (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 3/4 in x 7/8 in; 9.525 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 2.2 cm; 3 17/32 in x 7/8 in