Microbiology News: clinical, Jul 2014

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Microbiology News: clinical, Jul 2014

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

CE/IVD Marking for BD Viper™ LT Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Assays

29 Jul 2014 | Clinical

BD Viper LT System provides low and mid-volume labs with highly reliable detection of Chlamydia and Neisseria gonorrhoeae from all genital sample types on an automated and easy to use platform. more...

MWE to Push Ahead With Distribution of Flocked Swabs

28 Jul 2014 | ClinicalOther

With improved absorption and release, Medical Wire and Equipment are exclusive (UK and Ireland) and non-exclusive distributors for Puritan’s HydraFlock® and PurFlock Ultra® flocked swabs. more...

Small Vacuum Autoclave Perfect for Sterilising Difficult items

22 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Priorclave introduce benchtop vacuum autoclave suitable for low-volume sterilisation of items such as bagged mixed plastic waste, tubing and narrow bore glass ware. more...

Uncover Hidden Contamination with TSC’s SpongeTub Kit

21 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

TSC Sampling Sponge Tub offers end-users a convenient all in one monitoring kit that’s a quick and simple method for confirming the presence of living microorganisms more...

Sigma-Virocult® Swabs Continue Battle with Influenza

21 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherVeterinary

The annual influenza season seems to be well underway in the northern hemisphere with the pandemic H1N1 strain (Influenza A (H1N1)pdm09) predominating in both Europe and North America. more...

Establishing Limit of Detection with Quantified ATCC Strains and Nucleic Acids

17 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Accurate determination of Limit of Detection relies on the use of authenticated microbial or molecular controls with known concentrations, ATCC now has an expanded portfolio for LOD testing. more...

Court Rules on Puritan’s HydraFlock® and PurFlock Ultra®

17 Jul 2014 | Clinical

Puritan’s HydraFlock® and PurFlock Ultra® flocked swab products are flocked differently and do not have Copan’s claimed fiber arrangement according to District Court Düsseldorf. more...

New Iam CMV Provides Speed and Accuracy for Immunocompromised Patients

17 Jul 2014 | Clinical

Iam CMV is a duplex fluorescent Q-LAMP assay employing primers designed to recognise a region of the CMV genome common to all clinically-relevant subtypes. more...

And the Winner is ... Antibiotic Resistance

17 Jul 2014 | Clinical

The Longitude prize for 2014 is developing a solution to antibiotic resistance, register your interest in this £10 million prize money, submissions start in autumn 2014. more...

UTM™ and ESwab™- Collection and Transport Systems for Whooping Cough

14 Jul 2014 | ClinicalOther

ESwab™ maintains viability of Bordetella for culturing and preserves cell and DNA integrity for DFA and PCR detection after 96 hours of refrigerated storage. Universal transport medium is suitable for both viruses and bacteria. more...

Battling Antibiotic Resistance - New QuickFISH Test

14 Jul 2014 | ClinicalOther

By reporting species ID at same time as Gram stain results QuickFISH enables a targeted, species specific, antimicrobial therapeutic strategy to be employed much sooner. Especially helpful when dealing with microorganisms that share an identical Gram stain morphology. more...

Rapid Differential Detection of HSV for Immunocompromised Patients

08 Jul 2014 | Clinical

The new Iam HSV from DiaSorin provides rapid molecular confirmation of HSV infection in immunocompromised individuals and in cases of herpes simplex encephalitis. more...

Microbiologics Partners with Biomatrica

08 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Microbiologics has licensed Biomatrica’s DNAstable® and RNAstable® technology for use in their line of molecular controls for rapid diagnostic instruments and assays. more...

Simple, Effective Cleaning and Sanitising Validation Systems from TSC

07 Jul 2014 | ClinicalPharmaceutical

Technical Service Consultants (TSC) Enviroscreen range offers customers choice of ready to use sampling kits for routine microbiological & general hygiene monitoring of equipment & surfaces, ideal for validation of cleaning & sanitising programs. more...

Improve Your Pipetting Productivity

07 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

INTEGRA PIPETBOY acu 2 serological pipettor combines all essential characteristics for productive work with pipettes: precision, speed, ease-of-use, comfort, long operating battery life and reliability. more...

Corgenix Grant to Advance Work on Ebola Point-of-Care Kit

01 Jul 2014 | Clinical

Corgenix research group have received a three-year, $2.9 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to advance the development of an Ebola rapid diagnostic test kit. more...

Biohit appoints Quick Test distributor in Germany

01 Jul 2014 | Clinical

Biohit Oyj has appointed Bestbion dx GmbH to distribute its range of Quick Test products in Germany. more...

New Line of Water QC Kits – EZ-Hydro Shot

01 Jul 2014 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Microbiologics® EZ-Hydro Shot™ - QC organisms for water quality testing, validated for use with Standard Methods for Examination of Water and Wastewater, EPA test methods etc. Validated for membrane filtration, enzyme substrate methods and others. more...