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Microbiology News: clinical, Jul 2019


Azlon® Re-Usable Plasticware – Maximising Product Life

31 Jul 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Azlon plasticware
How long reusable plasticware lasts depends on how well you treat it! Follow these guidelines to keep your Azlon® product in the best possible condition. more...
Medtech giant BD have succeeded in attaining CE –IVD certification for their molecular HPV assay Onclarity™ which detects all high risk genotypes. more...
T2 has entered into exclusive distribution agreements covering five new markets: Estonia, Greece, Ireland, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. more...
Only a four hour wait from submitting sample to precise antibiotic prescription, First Light Diagnostics aims to end the rise of superbugs with MultiPath™. more...

Seal a Rack of 96 Tubes with Push Caps in a Single Action

23 Jul 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The Micronic Push Cap Capper CP400 offers a cost effective way of applying uniform pressure to push caps in an entire 96 tubes rack in only a single action. more...

ELISA Quantifies Levels of Cas9 Protein in Cell Culture in 3 Hours

23 Jul 2019 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

From start to finish the Cas9 ELISA can be performed in ~3 hours, making this assay incredibly efficient and convenient for the end user as compared to most other methodologies more...
VeraTest Biotin can determine biotin levels and, using targeted nanomagnetic beads, capture and remove biotin from a sample. VeraBind Biotin is a proprietary monoclonal antibody that can be used by diagnostic manufacturers to convert existing assays to be biotin-interference free. more...

Virus Concentration - Faster, Easier, Better

15 Jul 2019 | WaterClinicalVeterinary

concentrating pipette
InnovaPrep products enable rapid concentration of viruses from larger liquid volumes than other methods allow thereby providing the highest concentration factors possible - faster, easier, better. No centrifugation required. more...

Increasing Throughput with INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 Channel Pipette

15 Jul 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

integra multi channel pipette
Researchers at the University of North Texas are using INTEGRA’s VIAFLO 96 electronic pipette to increase the throughput of their ELISA, Luminex and flow cytometry workflows, as well as to improve the reproducibility of their results.  more...
Videos will see how simple the MultiPath™ Platform is to use plus gain an understanding of the underlying technology that delivers pathogen identification in 30 minutes and antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) results in 4 hours. more...
Sensititre System offers one of the widest, most up-to-date selections of antimicrobials for MDR infections. In addition to the new standard formats, labs can also create their own custom AST plates from a selection of over 300 antimicrobials, including eravacycline, omadacycline and plazomicin. more...

Special Focus - Automating the Microbiology Lab

14 Jul 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Copan Wasp Lab
Increasing pressure on labs to improve efficency and traceability of results is driving the move to full and semi-automated systems, in this rapidmicrobiology special focus we highlight systems and approaches that will improve your lab's workflow. more...
The BioCode® MDx-3000 system offers the high volume laboratory an alternative to high cost, single use, cartridge-based molecular test systems.  more...

Concentrating Pipette for Improved Detection and Same Shift Results

08 Jul 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Innovaprep Concentrating Pipette Select
The CP Select is an automated sample prep instrument for liquids. It improves the sensitivity for any analytical method whether molecular or culture based providing a clean & concentrated sample input. Reduce your costs by reducing labor, time to market, recalls, and incidences of harm. more...
The test is performed using a small (10µL) drop of fingertip blood and provides quantitative results in approximately 15 minutes when used with the company’s handheld DPP Micro Reader. more...
NeuMoDx™ molecular offers solutions that integrate the entire molecular diagnostic process – from extraction to detection or ‘sample to result’ – with the first result available in approximately one hour. more...
Achieving 97% sensitivity and 87% specificity, the empiriSTAT-UTI, is the first in a series of in vitro tests developed to increase the speed and accuracy of identifying bacterial infections from both urine and blood. more...
The ARIES® MRSA Assay is a real-time, qPCR-based, in vitro diagnostic test for the direct detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) DNA from nasal swabs in patients at risk for nasal colonization. Now submitted for FDA clearance. more...
ViroStat has just released a set of new monoclonal antibodies to Gardnerella vaginalis. These specific antibodies do not cross react with other agents including Chlamydia, Candida albicans and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. more...
iCubate’s rapid multiplex assays provide reliable test results for common bacterial causes of bloodstream infections as well as the detection of major antibiotic resistance gene markers directly from a positive blood culture, providing results within 3-4.5 hours. more...