In the week the WHO declared 2019-CoV to be a global health emergency, we saw 4 diagnostic companies bringing new molecular detection kits to the market, see this weeks microbiology newsletter, also find:

• COPAN’s Kit of 3mL UTM® & 2 FLOQSwabs™ can be used to investigate novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as per the recently released CDC guidelines - Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)


• Poultry producers can now test for Campylobacter using a fast lateral flow device that requires no anaerobic incubation plus recently there's a new and improved range of 2 x paired and 5 x paired poultry boot swab kits for the monitoring of Salmonella in poultry flock.


• Bertin Instruments illustrate how their one-minute Precellys Evolution Homogenizers outperforms standard lysing methods and opens up an unbiased look at the microbiome's population.


• Stop having to manually change your pipettes volumes with INTEGRA's quick set dials on their EVOLVE pipette range, currently there's a competition to win a set of these pipettes

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