Assignment task: For the following questions, make sure any sources you used are below your answer. Many samples from patients have to be shipped off to a medical laboratory facility in order to be tested, while other samples have a rapid test that is readily available in the office. There are different types of transport media for different pathogenic organisms. Bacteria are often sampled and sent off to determine whether an infection has occurred. A patient has arrived to your practice with an infected abscess. To test for a bacterial infection, a sample must be taken and sent to a lab to be counted. Keep in mind that there is a microbiome on the skin as well, meaning that there is a normal amount of microbiota and an amount to indicate infection. A majority of skin abscesses are caused by Staphylococcus aureus. A sample is taken directly from the wound site. Answer the questions below:
a. What is the purpose of transport media?
b. What kinds of solutions make up transport media? Notably, what is excluded in the synthesis of transport media and why?
c. Say for instance that an unlabeled test tube was stored in the same box as transport