Cases of diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria in artificial water systems are rising. An example is Legionnaires disease, a severe bacterial pneumonia. It is the leading cause of notifiable water-borne disease outbreaks and can be acquired by inhaling aerosols containing Legionella.

However, a realistic and fast quantification of Legionella bacteria is not possible with the established cultivation-based tests. For this reason, rqmicro has developed a method that allows the reliable quantification of intact Legionella within two hours.

Furthermore, the microbiological load, the number of all bacteria in a water system, is a critical process parameter for water utilities and other industries. It is applied to ensure continuity of water quality in the supply chain and process water. rqmicro offers a test kit to quantify the total amount of bacteria in water samples on a single-cell level.

All assays can run on the rqmicro.COUNT, a cartridge-based flow cytometer that automatically performs sample purification and analysis. Custom solutions for high sample throughput are also available.

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