Cotton Swabs

Applicator Sticks are single-use medical devices with absorbent tips (cotton, rayon, flocked polyester) on wood, plastic, or paper shafts for collecting clinical specimens (throat, nasal, wound, cervical, urethral, rectal) for microbiological culture, rapid testing, and molecular diagnostics. Sterile individually wrapped or non-sterile bulk formats. Flocked swabs provide >90% specimen release for PCR testing. Primary applications include specimen collection for infection diagnosis, wound care and antiseptic application, gynecological sampling (Pap smears, STI testing), eye/ear specimen collection, laboratory slide preparation, and forensic evidence collection. Critical precautions include single-use only, sterile technique, proper collection method, and biohazard disposal. Essential consumable in all clinical settings.