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Puritan - Providing Quality Diagnostic Sampling & Transport Products for 100 years!

Puritan Medical Products
Swabs
28 Mar 2019
Looking for a flock swab to collect and reliably transport DNA, or a transport media device with an NP swab that will work with your automated platform?  Perhaps a surface testing swab for use in your facility? You'll find what you need at Puritan.

NG-Test® CARBA 5: Detect and Characterise OXA-48-like, KPC, NDM, VIM & IMP in 15 minutes

NG-Test CARBA 5
Blood CultureKlebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase NDM-1
28 Mar 2019
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) infections are increasing worldwide and 700 000 people die each year globally.  Fight at your level with a rapid and effective detection of carbapenemases with this unique and new test.

VirClia®, the All-In-One CLIA System for Infectious Serology

VirClia Monotest
28 Mar 2019
VirClia® is the first fully automated, self-contained monotest, multiparameter CLIA system.  It provides the widest panel for infectious diseases testing where all assays are compatible with each other, and all can be treated as one.

1st Rapid Release of ATMPs Prior Treatment for Bacteria and Mycoplasma

1st Rapid Release of ATMPs
ATMP - Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal ProductsMycoplasmaPCR
28 Mar 2019
Contaminated ATMPs pose life-threatening risks for immunocompromised patients. Microbial release test results prior to treatment are essential. Now available for PCR-based bacteria and mycoplasma detection, the highest specificity and more control.

The Small, Yet Perfectly Formed, New Workstation From Don Whitley Scientific

Whitley A25 Workstation
Workstations
28 Mar 2019
Considering changing from using jars to using an anaerobic workstation?  Now available from Don Whitley Scientific, one of the most compact workstations yet – the Whitley A25 Workstation.

ChromaZona is an IVD Certified Instrument for Automated AST & Microbial ID

ChromaZona
21 CFR part 11Antibiotic SensitivityIdentification
28 Mar 2019
ChromaZona is an IVD certified instrument for automated AST & microbial ID in the clinical lab.  It comes complete with eAST, MIC Strip & Chromogenic ID software, enabling you to generate objective, consistent AST & identification data quickly & efficiently.

ELITech is Launching its New Mycofast® to Detect Urogenital Mycoplasma.

Mycofast
Mycoplasma
28 Mar 2019
ELITech has built a solid reputation in providing manual tests in the fields of urogenital mycoplasma diagnosis. The latest Mycofast® RevolutioN 2 and RevolutioN ATB+ include a number of major innovations that enhance flexibility and ease of use.

Study Shows Fecal Transwab® Improves Sensitivity of Multiplex for Salmonella

Fecal Swabs
Specimen TransportSwabs with Transport Medium
28 Mar 2019
A study being presented at ECCMID demonstrates that using Fecal Transwab® as the collection device improved the sensitivity of a leading multiplex based test for enteric pathogens.

Syndromic Molecular Controls from Microbiologics

QC Controls for Molecular Syndromic Tests
QC Molecular Standards
28 Mar 2019
Microbiologics offers over 900 strains in a variety of formats for assay and diagnostic system validation/verification, routine QC, proficiency testing and more. Visit booth 1.101 to learn how we can simplify testing in your lab.

FecalSwab™ Stool Collection and Transport Device Certified Free of Nucleic Acids

Fecal Transport Swab Nucelic Acid Free
SwabsSwabs with Transport Medium
28 Mar 2019
Extraneous nucleic acid contaminants in traditional Cary-Blair transports can potentially cause erroneous false-positive results for Vibrio and Yersinia species in molecular diagnostic assays.

Corning® Gosselin™ Contact Dishes - Ideal for Use in Hygiene Monitoring of Surfaces

Contact Plates
Environmental Monitoring
26 Mar 2019
Corning® Gosselin™ contact dishes are ideal for microorganism detection and for testing the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection on a flat surface.

Microbiota-based Therapeutics on Clostridioides difficile Infection Patient Microbiomes

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Clostridioides difficleClostridium difficileMicrobiome
26 Mar 2019
Microbiome data from two recurrent Clostridioides difficile Phase 2 clinical studies was presented at the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2019

WHO Issues Technical Note on Use of Established Molecular Diagnostics for AMR

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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase NDM-1
26 Mar 2019
Currently, data reported to GLASS is based on detection of phenotypic resistance, these methods do not provide any direct information about the mechanism(s) of resistance. It may be worth considering supplementing these with molecular diagnostics for AMRto confirm and track resistance mechanisms.

WHO Launches New Global Influenza Strategy

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Avian InfluenzaInfluenzaInfluenza H1N1
26 Mar 2019
WHO will expand partnerships to increase research, innovation and availability of new and improved global influenza tools to benefit all countries.  At the same time WHO will work closely with countries to improve their capacities to prevent and control influenza.

Abbott Receives CE Mark for Alinity™ m Molecular Diagnostics System and Assays

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HIVMycoplasma genitaliumNeisseria
26 Mar 2019
Alinity m will allow labs to meet the growing demand for infectious disease testing by offering increased efficiency and market-leading speed and accuracy, this new technology presents one of the most significant advancements seen in the molecular diagnostics field in decades.

Microbiology Insider

Microbiology Insider
AlicyclobacillusEnvironmental MonitoringListeria spp.
26 Mar 2019
Download your free copy of our latest Insider Magazine today – available online now!

2019 CLSI & EUCAST Updated Guidelines in the BIOMIC® V3 Microbiology System

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Antibiotic Sensitivity
19 Mar 2019
The BIOMIC V3 is an open access platform to Improve the speed, accuracy and standardization of reading MIC's from your current system - Etest, AST, M.I.C.E., Diffusion disks and 96-well Microtiter.

Tecan and QIAGEN Collaborate to Automate Pre-Analytic Step for Latent TB Detection Test

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Latent Tuberculosis InfectionLiquid HandlingPreanalytics
11 Mar 2019
Using Tecan's Fluent Laboratory Automation workstation for aliquoting samples for the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus diagnostic test for tuberculosis, will reduce errors and variability between runs.

AnimalBiome Selects Loop Genomics To Provide Affordable Veterinary Microbiome Test

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Clostridium difficileMicrobiomeYeasts and Moulds
11 Mar 2019

The Loop Genomics’ platform will allow AnimalBiome to provide an affordable microbiome test identifying the presence and relative abundance of bacterial groups, giving veterinarians insights to guide dietary, supplement and other lifestyle changes. 

Swabs – Past to the Present

Development of the Swab from Past to Present
ForensicsSample CollectionSwabs
05 Mar 2019
As Puritan Medical Products celebrates 100 years of manufacturing swabs, this review takes through how swabs have changed through the years from cotton tip to today's sophisticated range of flocked technology to meet today's needs of molecular investigations.

Special Focus on Pyrogen and Endotoxin Testing

Endotoxin LAL Pyrogen Testing
Bacterial Endotoxin Test (BET)EndotoxinLimulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL)
05 Mar 2019
Showcasing products and services for pyrogen and endotoxin testing for parenterals and implantable medical devices. Includes LAL assays, plus the horseshoe crab free - recombinant Factor C (rFC) and rabbit free Monocyte Activation Test (MAT) approaches,

Don Whitley Dies at the Age of 89

Don Whitley Receives Honourary Doctorate in 2009
Anaerobiosis
05 Mar 2019
The directors of Don Whitley Scientific Limited are very sad to announce that Dr Don Whitley, founder and chairman of Don Whitley Scientific Limited, died on Thursday, 28 February 2019 after a short illness.
 

Study Demonstrates Value of Genomics to Improve the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

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Blood CultureIdentification
05 Mar 2019
Recently published study found the Karius Test proved to be highly accurate, with greater than 95 percent analytical sensitivity for organisms contributing as little as 50 fragments of cfDNA per microliter of plasma, and greater than 99.99 percent analytical specificity per pathogen.  

New Tool Enables Researchers to Properly Seal Screw Cap Tubes in any Circumstance

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04 Mar 2019
The unique Micronic Recapper is set to a precise torque value to ensure that screw caps are optimally tightened onto tubes.  This mechanism reduces human errors and safeguards sample integrity for long-term sample storage.

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