Microbiology News: clinical, Mar 2019

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Microbiology News: clinical, Mar 2019

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

28 Mar 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

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. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

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. more...

Fast, Reliable and Cost-Effective Molecular Diagnostic Solutions

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

Stop by Mobidiag at ECCMID booth (#1.62, Hall 3) to discover our proprietary diagnostic solutions, Amplidiag® and Novodiag® and how these can provide fast, accurate and accessible results for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

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. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

Study Shows Fecal Transwab® Improves Sensitivity of Multiplex for Salmonella

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

Syndromic Molecular Controls from Microbiologics

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

QC Controls for Molecular Syndromic Tests

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. more...

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

28 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

26 Mar 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Corning® Gosselin™ contact dishes are ideal for microorganism detection and for testing the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection on a flat surface. more...

Microbiota-based Therapeutics on Clostridioides difficile Infection Patient Microbiomes

26 Mar 2019 | ClinicalMicrobiome

Microbiome data from two recurrent Clostridioides difficile Phase 2 clinical studies was presented at the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit 2019 more...

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

26 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

WHO Launches New Global Influenza Strategy

26 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

26 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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.

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Microbiology Insider

26 Mar 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Download your free copy of our latest Insider Magazine today – available online now! more...

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

19 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

11 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

Swabs – Past to the Present

05 Mar 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Development of the Swab from Past to Present

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. more...

Special Focus on Pyrogen and Endotoxin Testing

05 Mar 2019 | WaterClinicalPharmaceutical

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, more...

Don Whitley Dies at the Age of 89

05 Mar 2019 | Clinical

Don Whitley Receives Honourary Doctorate in 2009

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.
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Mobidiag Signs Distribution Agreements for its Amplidiag® and Novodiag® Diagnostic Solutions

05 Mar 2019 | Clinical

Amplidiag® is a family of diagnostic tests for mid to high-volume screening of gastrointestinal pathogens and antibiotic resistances. more...

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

05 Mar 2019 | Clinical

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. more...

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

04 Mar 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

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. more...

Visit Booth D37 at ECCMID to meet the MWE Team

Showcasing molecular diagnostic kits for clinical and food labs

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