Microbiology News: clinical, Feb 2013

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Microbiology News: clinical, Feb 2013

Assay Development Clinical Cosmetic/Personal Care Food & Beverage Laboratory Equipment Microbiome Other Pharmaceutical Veterinary Water

PCL Alverno Designated Siemens Microbiology Innovations Center

25 Feb 2013 | Clinical

First medical diagnostics lab in the U.S. to showcase Siemens' full range of advanced microbiology testing solutions and will be a future reference site. more...

Norovirus GII Molecular Standard Now Available

25 Feb 2013 | Clinical

Phthisis Diagnostics, Inc. have positive control material for reverse transcription PCR Norovirus GII assays. more...

Neogen Develops Simple Tests for Shellfish Toxins

25 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinical

Reveal® 2.0 for ASP detects ASP-causing toxins at 20 ppm and Reveal 2.0 for DSP detects DSP-causing toxins at 160 ppb, easy one-step test. more...

Improving Reproducibility in Real-Time PCR

25 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Integra VIAFLO 96 handheld electronic pipette, significantly improved the reproducibility and productivity in Real-time PCR assays in US clinical diagnostic lab. more...

Microbiologics Recognized for Exportation Achievements

25 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

February, 2013, US Senator, Amy Klobuchar, visited the Microbiologics headquarters in Saint Cloud, Minnesota to present the company with an Export Achievement Certificate from the United States Department of Commerce. more...

Lab M Adds Extensive Water Industry Experience to Senior Team

19 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Lab M has appointed Tim Down, a microbiologist who has worked in the water industry for many years, as Operations Manager at the company's headquarters in Heywood, Greater Manchester, UK. more...

bioMérieux Releases Etest® Ceftaroline

18 Feb 2013 | Clinical

Susceptibility testing with Etest® Ceftaroline provides a broad, 15 two-fold dilution, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) range of 0.002 to 32 µg/mL. The MICs provided by Etest® are intended to help guide optimal antibiotic therapy. more...

ATCC® NDM-1 Strains - Now Available!

18 Feb 2013 | Clinical

To aid in the development of diagnostic tools that can rapidly and accurately identify these superbugs, ATCC now offers five clinical strains of drug-resistant bacteria known to produce NDM-1. more...

Neogen Europe Offers Meat Speciation, On-site and Contract Laboratory

18 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinical

On-site products include F.A.S.T. Species Identification kits, which are simple yet robust qualitative tests with a limit of detection of 1%. more...

PPD Expands Microbiology Testing Capabilities at Brussels and Singapore Labs

11 Feb 2013 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical Product Development, LLC (PPD) a global contract research organization has strengthened its central laboratory testing services in infectious diseases. more...

Reliable, High-Throughout Tube Decapper

11 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The Univo Electric Decapper DC480 is the latest addition to Micronic's 'blue-white' line of productive sample handling equipment, compatible with all Micronic tubes (up to 1.40ml) and tubes and caps of other brands. more...

Enterococcus QuickFISH BC 20 Min ID from Positive Blood Cultures

11 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinical

From AdvanDx, the QuickFISH range significantly advances time-to-result and ease-of-use Staphylococcus QuickFISH and Enterococcus QuickFISH assays have FDA clearance and CE mark. more...

New Standards for Molecular Parasite Assays

05 Feb 2013 | Clinical

Standardise your molecular assays for parasitic diseases such as malaria, with a new range of synthetic controls from Alpha Laboratories that provide stable, consistent, safe and abundant material. more...

New Independent Validation Study of ProtoCOL 3 System

04 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

Synbiosis ProtoCOL 3 rapid automated colony counter has been shown to perform with the same accuracy as manual colony counting for enumerating 10 different types of microbial colonies on a range of agar plates. more...

New Hoist Increases Versatility of Priorclave Autoclave

04 Feb 2013 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Designed as an option for use with Priorclave's versatile range of top-loading autoclaves is a new electric hoist called Loadlite. By adding this to vertical chamber steam sterilisers it makes light work of lowering/raising heavy awkward objects into the chamber, often eliminating the need to even more...