Kit is designed to make specimen collection, transport, and storage easier by sustaining aerobic, anaerobic, and fastitious bacteria in one formulationThe kit includes a blue polypropylene screw-cap tube pre-filled with 1mL of Modified Liquid Amies and packaged with a nylon flexible minitip flocked applicator swab. Tubes protect samples for up to 48 hours, whether stored at room temperature or refrigerated. The sample rapidly elutes from the flocked swab when placed in the transport medium for testing.