Chilled to death ....

Microbiology class started with a question...Suppose you are  in charge of doing a lumbar puncture for a 2 year old child with signs and symptoms of meningitis. You took the sample and labelled it, when you realized there is some delay in transporting the CSF sample to the lab. Where would you store the sample before it is transported ?
....The Refrigerator (What a silly question?) screamed the whole class  .... except for one (Yes, he was right)

Usually whenever there is  an  extra samples of CSF or there comes some delay in transporting it, we have the habit of keeping it in refrigerator  ..... Just read this .....

2 year old child presented  all symptoms  and signs of meningitis. Lumbar puncture was done, and three samples of CSF were taken. One sample was taken immediately for processing, and the rest two were refrigerated. The  first sample report came positive for H.Influenza, and the rest two when send for reconfirmation came as negative.

H.Influenza dies as soon as it is refrigerated ...It cannot withstand  less than 4 degree C of temperature. So keep it at room temperature if there is any delay in transporting the sample. So we can avoid the potential risk of missing the correct diagnosis and therefore the treatment given .....

Courtesy: microbiologyinpictures.org