Microbiology News: Sep 2019

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Microbiology News: Sep 2019

Food Poisoning from Campylobacter spp.

30 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

With millions of cases, worldwide, each year of foodborne Campylobacteriosis; learn more about these important diarrheal disease-causing pathogens, including the detection and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. in food and environmental samples according to international standards. more...

Faster, Easier, Better Contamination Monitoring with Rapid Sample Prep

30 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

The InnovaPrep CP Select is a rapid and automated concentration tool for contamination monitoring. It exponentially improves sensitivity for nearly any analytical method so you can get same-shift results while improving your LOD. more...

Microbiologics Adds Rifampicin-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis To Its Molecular QC Offering

30 Sep 2019 | Clinical

Microbiologics' positive and negative controls are designed to help laboratories deliver reliable MTB-RIF testing results, the positive control represents five common mutations to the rpoB gene associated with rifampicin-resistance. more...

Sustainable Solutions for Laboratory Heating and Cooling

30 Sep 2019 | WaterClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

DrySyn range offers a clean, safe alternative to oil baths and heating mantles which both reduces costs in purchasing and disposal of oil, and offers a reduction in energy consumption. more...

Is this Week's Listeria the Same as Last Week's? Identify Your Strains with IR Biotyper

25 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

The MALDI Biotyper can be used to confirm presumptive and identify organisms from various agar plates; it can be used as a fast and easy pre-screening method before using the IR Biotyper for complete strain characterization to find out if it's a resident or a transient strain. more...

Point-of-Care Solution for Rapid Detection of Influenza

24 Sep 2019 | Clinical

The GeneXpert System provides an efficient and reliable means to accurately diagnose flu and RSV. This can benefit both turnaround times and patient management, while also helping to reduce the costs associated with winter outbreaks. more...

Pathogen Testing Powders is Simple with Solus

24 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

With specifically designed immunoassay kits, dedicated selective enrichment media and automated liquid handling, the Solus Pathogen Detection System can offer solutions for testing a number of “challenging” matrices. more...

Boost Data Intgerity with Easy Edit App for Labguru Electronic Laboratory Notebook

24 Sep 2019 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Data integrity is now ensured with Labguru's new realtime inline editing app - removing the need to leave the system to work on another software platform and then transfer the work back which creates the potential for human error plus taking up additional time.

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APAS Independence With MRSA Analysis Module - CE Marking

24 Sep 2019 | Clinical

The APAS Independence reduces manual reading of non-significant plates for urine and MRSA testing which can account for up to 50 - 70% of lab specimens. more...

Flu Season Ahead! Stock up on Specimen Collection Swabs from Puritan.

17 Sep 2019 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

You’ve been there before – you reach for a swab and find you are getting very low. Now is the time to stock up, before flu season is on your doorstep. Choose Puritan's US made specimen collection devices for reliable collection. Here's why. more...

Applied BioCode Submits FDA 510(k) Application for Syndromic BioCode® Respiratory Pathogen Panel

17 Sep 2019 | Clinical

In addition to the 17-target BioCode® Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panel, which gained FDA clearance in 2018, the BioCode® Respiratory Pathogen Panel will be the second of many syndromic multiplex panels to be commercialized on the BioCode® MDx-3000. more...

Ultra-Pure Porous Plastics for Healthcare Applications

17 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Vyon® offers excellent inherent properties for medical and healthcare products. It’s venting capability allows closed environments to breathe whilst maintaining optimal bacterial resistance is a highly desireable and key property in a wide range of medical and pharmaceutical applications. more...

Bio-Rad Announces AOAC Approval of iQ-Check S. Enteritidis and iQ-Check S.Typhimurium Kits

16 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

The iQ-Check S. Enteritidis and iQ-Check S. Typhimurium assays are now AOAC INTERNATIONAL approved for 25g test portions of raw chicken, boot swabs and drag swabs.

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Ensure Optimal Sample Collection for Influenza Diagnostics this Season

16 Sep 2019 | Clinical

This flu season, COPAN's UTM™ Universal Transport Media paired with COPAN’s FLOQSwabs™ are the optimal kit to provide specimen collections with high sensitivity in diagnostic lab testing for influenza and respiratory viruses, using culture, rapid antigen or molecular assays. more...

Modular Manufacturing Solution Speeds Access to Novel Biotherapeutics

16 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Expand cGMP production area with this modular, expandable solution. more...

Rapid Detection of Bacterial Contamination for Cellular Therapeutics

16 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Cellular therapies have delivered great clinical promise but demand rapid sterility testing technologies suitable for biotherapeutics. A study evaluated the bacterial detection capability of a novel, rapid qPCR based detection system. Results have been summarized as a poster, free to download. more...

Flu Season - Which Swab Will You Choose?

16 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Medical Wire & Equipment explain how to select the right transport swab this flu season. more...

Next Generation Food Sample Prep with iNLABTEC

16 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

Better Serial Dilutions for total counts

In this video Alexandra Ali, Kinematica USA discusses the benefits of using the iNLABTEC Serial Diluter UA with an integrated Stomacher-type bag mixer to make dilutions for food microbiology more efficient and less prone to errors without the need to change validated lab protocols. more...

FDA-Cleared Liofilchem MTS™ (MIC Test Strip) Doxycyline (DXT)

12 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

Liofilchem has received clearance from the FDA to market in the United States the Doxycyline 0.016-256 MTS™ (MIC Test Strip), a quantitative assay for determining the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of Doxycyline.
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BD Veritor™ Plus System-Clinical Flu Detection

10 Sep 2019 | Clinical

rapid detection of flu A B in moderately complex setting

The BD Veritor Plus Analyzer is a small footprint, point of care analyser for the rapid detection of Flu A and B in acute, non-acute and retail care settings. more...

Simplify Your Listeria Workflow

10 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

Neogen’s range of validated rapid and conventional testing solutions can simplify the Listeria workflow of your microbiological testing laboratory. Find out more about our complete range of traditional and rapid methods. more...

CE Certification for DISQVER® - Automated Relevance-Based Detection of Blood Stream Infections

10 Sep 2019 | Clinical

Using NGS together with an algorithm to assess relevance, the DISQVER platform can detect blood borne pathogens including bacteria, fungi, DNA viruses and parasites; particulary pathogens that are difficult to cultivate.

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Free Microbiome Standards and Spike-In Controls Available to Researchers Worldwide

10 Sep 2019 | Microbiome

The Microbiomics Standards & Controls Initiative provides free microbiomic standards and spike-in controls free of charge to researchers worldwide. more...

SpeeDx Receives CE-IVD Clearance for ResistancePlus^® MG FleXible

10 Sep 2019 | Clinical

Near-patient Mycoplasma genitalium and macrolide resistance testing is now available for sale in European Countries - ResistancePlus^® MG FleXible more...

ARUP Laboratories Deploys World’s First AI-Augmented Ova and Parasite Assay

10 Sep 2019 | Clinical

Using Techcyte's AI-augmented detection tool ARUP labs can quickly screen out negative fecal sample slides for presence of ova and parasites, so reducing operator fatigue. more...

Curetis To Take Over OpGen - Focusing on Molecular Diagnostics and AI-Powered AMR

10 Sep 2019 | Clinical

Curetis and OpGen join forces to create a commercial-stage, transatlantic diagnostics company focusing on data-driven solutions for molecular microbiology. more...

LAMP Versus PCR for Food Safety Testing - What's the Difference?

09 Sep 2019 | Food & Beverage

is LAMP or PCR better for food pathogens

In this video John David, 3M discusses the benefits of using LAMP technology for the most commonly tested food pathogens and how the 3M™ Molecular Detection System fits into the lab workflow, whether you're a small or a high throughput food testing facility. more...

Virtuosi^® - Virtual Reality Training for Sterile Manfacturing and Microbiology

09 Sep 2019 | Pharmaceutical

The Virtuosi® educational platform uses the power of virtual reality to engage employee learning by creating interactive educational experiences on the proper principles of aseptic technique. more...

QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel in European Multicenter Clinical Study

03 Sep 2019 | Clinical

With high sensitivity and specificity, plus insights for quantifying infections and identifying co-infections, QIAstat-Dx Gastrointestinal Panel provides differential detection of more than 20 bacterial, viral and parasitic pathogens implicated in gut infections. more...

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