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a <b>smear loop</b>, <b>inoculation wand</b> or <b>microstreaker</b>) is a simple tool used mainly by <a href="/wiki/Microbiologist" title="Microbiologist">microbiologists</a> to pick up and transfer a small sample of microorganisms called <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inoculum" class="extiw" title="wikt:inoculum">inoculum</a> from a <a href="/wiki/Microbiological_culture" title="Microbiological culture">microbial culture</a>, e.g. for <a href="/wiki/Streaking_(microbiology)" title="Streaking (microbiology)">streaking</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Culture_plate" title="Culture plate">culture plate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-west1988_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-west1988-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This process is called <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inoculation#Microbiology" class="extiw" title="wikt:inoculation">inoculation</a>. </p><p>The tool consists of a thin handle with a loop about 5 mm wide or smaller at the end. It was originally made of twisted <a href="/wiki/Metal" title="Metal">metal</a> wire (such as <a href="/wiki/Platinum" title="Platinum">platinum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tungsten" title="Tungsten">tungsten</a> or <a href="/wiki/Nichrome" title="Nichrome">nichrome</a>), but disposable <a href="/wiki/Extrusion_molding" class="mw-redirect" title="Extrusion molding">molded</a> <a href="/wiki/Plastic" title="Plastic">plastic</a> versions are now common. The size of the loop determines the volume of liquid an inoculation loop can transfer. An early report of the use of an inoculation loop as an analytical tool was by O'Sullivan <i>et al.</i><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in a 1960 published protocol developed to improve methods for culturing urine samples. A 3mm diameter loop was used to deliver a consistent volume of urine for analysis. 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glassware">Glassware</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apparatus</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dean%E2%80%93Stark_apparatus" title="Dean–Stark apparatus">Dean–Stark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soxhlet_extractor" title="Soxhlet extractor">Soxhlet extractor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kipp%27s_apparatus" title="Kipp's apparatus">Kipp's</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bottles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston_round_(bottle)" title="Boston round (bottle)">Boston round</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Condenser_(laboratory)" title="Condenser (laboratory)">Condensers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cold_finger" title="Cold finger">Cold finger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liebig_condenser" title="Liebig condenser">Liebig</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Dishes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evaporating_dish" title="Evaporating dish">Evaporating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petri_dish" title="Petri dish">Petri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syracuse_dish" title="Syracuse dish">Syracuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watch_glass" title="Watch glass">Watch glass</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Laboratory_flask" title="Laboratory flask">Flasks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCchner_flask" title="Büchner flask">Büchner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vacuum_flask" title="Vacuum flask">Vacuum (Dewar)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erlenmeyer_flask" title="Erlenmeyer flask">Erlenmeyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fernbach_flask" title="Fernbach flask">Fernbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fleaker" title="Fleaker">Fleaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence_flask" title="Florence flask">Florence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Retort" title="Retort">Retort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Round-bottom_flask" title="Round-bottom flask">Round-bottom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schlenk_flask" title="Schlenk flask">Schlenk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volumetric_flask" title="Volumetric flask">Volumetric</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Funnels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCchner_funnel" title="Büchner funnel">Büchner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%BCchner_funnel" title="Büchner funnel">Hirsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dropping_funnel" title="Dropping funnel">Dropping</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separatory_funnel" title="Separatory funnel">Separatory</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Measuring devices</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burette" title="Burette">Burette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conical_measure" title="Conical measure">Conical measure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuvette" title="Cuvette">Cuvette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eye_dropper" title="Eye dropper">Eye dropper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudiometer" title="Eudiometer">Eudiometer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graduated_cylinder" title="Graduated cylinder">Graduated cylinder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ostwald_viscometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Ostwald viscometer">Ostwald viscometer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pipette" title="Pipette">Pipette</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Glass_tube" title="Glass tube">Tubes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Drying_tube" title="Drying tube">Drying</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cragie_tube" title="Cragie tube">Cragie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NMR_tube" title="NMR tube">Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Test_tube" title="Test tube">Test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thiele_tube" title="Thiele tube">Thiele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thistle_tube" title="Thistle tube">Thistle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other items</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaker_(glassware)" class="mw-redirect" title="Beaker (glassware)">Beaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bell_jar" title="Bell jar">Bell jar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gas_syringe" title="Gas syringe">Gas syringe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vial" title="Vial">Vial</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Analytical_chemistry" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Analytical_chemistry" title="Analytical chemistry">Analytical chemistry</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compositional</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AutoAnalyzer" title="AutoAnalyzer">AutoAnalyzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CHN_analyzer" class="mw-redirect" title="CHN analyzer">CHN analyzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorimeter_(chemistry)" title="Colorimeter (chemistry)">Colorimeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inductively_coupled_plasma" title="Inductively coupled plasma">Inductively coupled plasma (ICP) device</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gas_chromatography" title="Gas chromatography">Gas chromatograph (GC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High-performance_liquid_chromatography" title="High-performance liquid chromatography">Liquid chromatograph (LC)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mass_spectrometry" title="Mass spectrometry">Mass spectrometer (MS)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PH_indicator" title="PH indicator">pH indicator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PH_meter" title="PH meter">pH meter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Microscopy" title="Microscopy">Microscopy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scanning_electron_microscope" title="Scanning electron microscope">Scanning electron microscope (SEM)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transmission_electron_microscopy" title="Transmission electron microscopy">Transmission electron microscope (TEM)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Thermochemistry" title="Thermochemistry">Thermochemistry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Calorimeter" title="Calorimeter">Calorimeter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Differential_scanning_calorimetry" title="Differential scanning calorimetry">differential scanning</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melting-point_apparatus" title="Melting-point apparatus">Melting-point apparatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thermometer" title="Thermometer">Thermometer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thermogravimetric_analysis" title="Thermogravimetric analysis">Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other items</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 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title="Electronics">Electronics</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Control devices</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bench_power_supply" class="mw-redirect" title="Bench power supply">Bench power supply</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Current_source" title="Current source">Current source</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voltage_source" title="Voltage source">Voltage source</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Function_generator" title="Function generator">Function generator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galvanostat" title="Galvanostat">Galvanostat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pulse_generator" title="Pulse generator">Pulse generator</a></li> <li><a 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