Microbiology News: clinical, Jan 2020

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Microbiology News: clinical, Jan 2020

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NATtrol MRSA Positive Control

30 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Vials of NATtrol™ S. aureus (MRSA). controls are supplied in a purified protein matrix that mimics the composition of a true clinical specimen. more...

Microbial Identification - a rapidmicrobiology Special Focus

28 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceutical

Special focus on microbial identification, explore contract identification providers, proficiency tests ID, how a water lab implemented MALDI-TOF, plus summaries of recent identification seminar, plus take our quiz - are you a MALDI expert? more...

How Charles River Accugenix^® Identification Service Can Tailor For Your Needs

28 Jan 2020 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

Jessica Rayser (Product Manager) and Morgan McCarraher (Associate) at Charles River Microbial Solutions talk to rapidmicrobiology.com on why Accugenix^®Microbial Identification Service stands out from the rest and how they can help meet your regulatory requirements. more...

Meridian's 1-Step RT-qPCR Mix Used in Screening for Coronavirus

28 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Meridian Biosciences has announced there has been a huge demand for their Lyo-Ready 1-Step RT-qPCR Mix in screening patients for the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). more...

Genesig Coronavirus RT-qPCR Kit Available Now Worldwide

28 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Primerdesign have developed a genesig RT-qPCR kit for the novel coronavirus strain 2019-CoV. The kit will be made officially available as of next week with the facility to pre-order now. more...

One Health Initiative Recruits Noscendo's DISQVER Bioinformatics Platform

27 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Noscendo's CE-certified DISQVER sequencing and bioinformatics platform has been adopted by a One Health Working Group in the University Hospital Bonn. This collaboration aims to speed up the identification of pathogens and resistances to improve antibiotic treatment and hygiene measures. more...

Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 21 January 2020

22 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Latest products for your microbiology lab

New ATP test kit supplying globally, easier pipetting protocols using magnetic beads to clean up nucleic acid preparations, new BRCGS environmental monitoring standards for food packaging manufacturers, GENE-UP EHEC gains MicroVal validation. more...

Enhanced BIOFIRE® Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2) Panel Submitted for FDA Clearance

21 Jan 2020 | Clinical

The BIOFIRE^® Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2) panel includes several additional pathogens, an expanded list of antimicrobial resistance genes, and many revised targets compared to the existing BIOFIRE^® BCID Panel. more...

Need a Fast Turnaround Microbial Identification with Great Customer Service?

21 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinaryMicrobiome

NCIMB offers fast turnaround on microbial identification. Discounted rates are available for large numbers of samples. We identify both bacteria and fungi at our Aberdeen laboratories. more...

Coronavirus Outbreak sees Airports Screening Travellers From Wuhan Province

20 Jan 2020 | Clinical

A novel coronavirus has the potential to spread in China with the upcoming New Year's celebrations. Chinese Authorities report that transmission is not sustained and mild symptoms are most likely. However immunocompromised people are on high-risk in this highly polluted region. more...

BrandTech's Pipettes can now be Wirelessly Charged

20 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinaryMicrobiome

Brandtech Scientific have launched an inductive charging stand to work with its BRAND® HandyStep® touch and HandyStep® touch S repeating pipettes. more...

Fagron Recalls 30 Lots of Anaesthetic Due to Bacillus spp. Contamination

17 Jan 2020 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

Fagron Inc. a pharmaceutical compounding company has voluntarily recalled over 30 lots of a topical anaesthetic after the FDA identified Bacillus fortis/Geobacillus toebii, Bacillus spp, and Bacillus circulans as contaminants in a non-sterile ingredient packaged with the anaesthetic. more...

Hull Hospitals Invest in New Environmental Monitoring Systems for Operating Theatres

14 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Operating theatres demand enhanced microbiological monitoring and infection control. Hull University Teaching NHS Trust have selected SAS Super air samplers, from Cherwell Laboratories. more...

Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 14 Jan 2020

14 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

A better way to take sterility testing samples from single use containers, PathogenDx technology may soon be applied to food pathogen detection, SAS air sampler for operating theatres, MIC strip for Ampicillin-sulbactam, why flow cytometry is so good for probiotics. more...

FDA-Cleared Liofilchem MTS^™ (MIC Test Strip) Ampicillin-Sulbactam (AMS)

14 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Liofilchem has received clearance from the FDA to market in the United States the Ampicillin*-Sulbactam (2/1) 0.016-256* MTS^™ (MIC Test Strip), a quantitative assay for determining the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Ampicillin-sulbactam. more...

Applied BioCode's Respiratory Pathogen Panel Receives FDA Approval

10 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Applied BioCode has received FDA 510(k) clearance on the BioCode Respiratory Pathogen Panel (RPP) for use on its high-throughput multiplex BioCode MDx-3000 molecular diagnostic system. more...

Latest Microbiology Newsletter - 7 Jan 2020

08 Jan 2020 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceutical

Solve PCR positive, culture negative food samples, new formulations of enrichment media, MALDI-TOF identification is it for your lab? more...

Burkholeria cepacia Contamination Results in Total Recall of Mavidon Products

06 Jan 2020 | ClinicalCosmetic/Personal Care

Mavidon, the medical device manufacturer, has informed all of its customers, hospitals and clinics to stop using and quarantine all of its products immediately because of possible contamination with Burkholderia cepacia more...

Ramboldi^® Consumables for Clinical Applications

06 Jan 2020 | Clinical

Disposable plastics for microbiology samples

Scilabware is pleased to offer the Ramboldi range of single use plastic products for use in general microbiology and life science applications. Specifically aimed at customers within the healthcare sector we offer a range of sterile products suitable for the management of patient samples. more...

BARDA gives MultiPath™ Another Boost in Breakthrough Diagnostics

02 Jan 2020 | Clinical

First Light Diagnostics has announced the authorization of additional funding from BARDA of $4.3 million to develop its MultiPath™ platform. This additional funding from the US Government's biomedical research grant authority given to First Light Diagnostics brings the total... more...

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