Microbiology News: clinical, Apr 2015

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Microbiology News: clinical, Apr 2015

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Safety Bunsen Burner Explainer Video

30 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Watch INTEGRA's simple, concise and funny video to learn about how the FIREBOY Safety Bunsen Burner ensures high safety by eliminating the risk of gas leaking and explosion - safe ignition, gas supply and temperature protection. more...

High-Throughput MALDI Biotyper^smart System with Lifetime Laser

28 Apr 2015 | Clinical

Higher throughput, speed and laser lifetime facilitate additional workflows for developing the MBT platform more and more into a general microbiology workhorse. more...

Rapid ID of >2,200 Microorganisms Directly from Positive Blood Culture

28 Apr 2015 | Clinical

IVD MALDI Sepsityper workflow typically reduces Time-to-Result (TTR) for sepsis by 24 to 36 hours for over 2,000 bacterial and over 200 yeast species, while retaining all the advantages of blood cultures. more...

Study Shows Pseudalert/Quanti-tray Valid for Hospital Water

27 Apr 2015 | WaterClinicalOther

Study showed IDEXX Pseudalert®/Quanti-Tray® method, for the rapid detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa gave faster results than ISO 16266 and MoDW Part 8 PACN agar membrane filtration methods with no further confirmation steps. more...

Comfortable, Compact, Clever – CX23 Microscope

27 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Enhanced portability, usability, sturdiness, and security means the new CX23 microscope is ideal both for educational and routine lab environments, as well as for use in the field more...

CE Marking for Momentum Biosciences’ Innovative Blood Culture Test

27 Apr 2015 | ClinicalOther

Using ETGA® technology, Cognitor® Minus gives a confirmed negative result, direct from blood culture, the day following sample receipt by the lab with a negative predictive value (NPV) of 99.5%. more...

Clever FlexiBulk Tip Packs - a New Concept for Packaging Pipette Tips

27 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

New bulk package with its well-organized pipette tip arrangement saves valuable space in the laboratory. more...

COPAN Releases Wound Sample Collection Video

23 Apr 2015 | ClinicalOther

Part of a Series of Free Educational Videos Featuring Dr. J. Michael Miller, demonstrating best practices for specimen collection this video is on wound collection using ESwab™ more...

Application Guide for Tecan Plate Washers

21 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Tecan’s guide to plate washers includes an overview of the features and highlights of each Tecan instrument. more...

Next Generation Pneumonia Application Launched at ECCMID

20 Apr 2015 | Clinical

DNA-based Unyvero P55 Pneumonia Application identified 127 additional pathogens compared to microbiology culture. more...

Tamperproof Laboratory Autoclaves

17 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

Priorclave QCS H150 is one of the most versatile and cost efficient steriliser available with a chamber design that offers 20% more in loading capacity than sterilisers of the same capacity. more...

FDA Clearance for Group A Streps in 8 Mins

14 Apr 2015 | Clinical

Using isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology (iNAT), the FDA cleared Alere™ i Strep A test gives Group A Strep results in under 8 minutes. more...

Study Shows Savings of $5.8M with T2Candida® Panel

14 Apr 2015 | ClinicalOther

Based on a 500 bed hospital the magnetic resonance-based T2Candida Panel sepsis diagnostic provides species-specific results in 3 to 5 hours and can results in annual savings of $5.8M. more...

One-stop Shop for Calibrating Range of Lab Equipment for ISO 15189

14 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Medical laboratories wanting to comply with ISO 15189 can now access Sartorius UKAS accredited servicing for on-site or remote testing and calibration of pipettes, balances and centrifuges. more...

Micronic Introduces New Ultra Low Temperature Rack Range

13 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

New 24-, 48- and 96-tube Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) rack range from Micronic are based on the automation compatible ANSI / SLAS dimensional footprint. more...

Small, Flexible and Reliable Heat Sealer Range from Eppendorf

13 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageClinicalOther

Preventing evaporation and contamination of different plate formats, Eppendorf's heat sealer range improves reliability and reproducibility. more...

Multidrug-resistant Shigellosis Spreading in the United States

13 Apr 2015 | Clinical

In the United States, most Shigella is already resistant to the antibiotics ampicillin and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole with international travellers repeated introducing resistant strains. more...

CLSI Report on Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases (MM03-Ed3)

07 Apr 2015 | ClinicalOther

CLSI report on Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases (MM03-Ed3) is for clinical laboratories, test developers and manufacturers, and regulatory agencies. more...

Ecofriendly Autoclave Range Reduces Energy and Water Requirements

07 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinaryCosmetic/Personal Care

New laboratory autoclave range from LTE scientific, the ecotech is one of the greenest available needing less energy and water. more...

Viral Controls for Molecular Diagnostic Testing

07 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterClinicalPharmaceuticalVeterinary

Helix Elite™ Molecular standards can demonstrate both test performance characteristics and staff proficiency of molecular diagnostic tests, CE Marked IVD Medical Devices allowing their use in clinical diagnostic applications globally. more...

FDA Clears Extra 170 Species and Species Groups Added to MALDI Biotyper CA

07 Apr 2015 | ClinicalOther

The MALDI Biotyper CA System can now in total identify 210 species or species groups, covering 280 clinically relevant bacteria and yeast species, and representing more than 98% of the typical bacterial identification workflow of clinical microbiology labs. more...