Microbiology News: clinical, Aug 2015

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Microbiology News: clinical, Aug 2015

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ATP Hygiene Monitoring Reduces Hospital Infection Rates

31 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOther

ATP monitoring can quickly identify contamination hotspots and improve cleanliness, offering large reductions in infection rates more...

Great Results for COPAN’s ESwab™ Maintaining Fastidious Anaerobic Bacteria Viability

27 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOther

COPAN’s ESwab™ tests well against the Gold Standard Transport System for maintenance of fastidious anaerobic bacteria viability more...

FDA 510(k) Clearance for VIDAS® 3 - the New Generation of VIDAS®

26 Aug 2015 | Clinical

With over 29,000 installed instruments offering 100 test parameters the VIDAS® is the most established automated immunoassay instrument, the new generation VIDAS® offers increased automation, traceability and security for greater productivity. more...

New Book on How to Manage Biorisk in the Lab

26 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

How to implement a program for controlling biorisk in the laboratory to prevent accidental release or exposure to pathogens. more...

CE Marking for Fungiplex - Candida and Aspergillus in Blood

26 Aug 2015 | Clinical

Using a unique detection technology - surface enhanced resonance Raman spectroscopy (SERRS), the Fungiplex identifies 12 Candida and Aspergillus species in a single run. more...

Brightfield LED Illumination for Upright and Inverted Microscopes

25 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceuticalVeterinary

The Brightfield LED has a 550 nanometre flip-in filter in the light path which reduces background fluorescence attributed to stray light. more...

QIAGEN and Seegene to Develop Infectious Diseases Panel

24 Aug 2015 | Clinical

Multiplexed real-time PCR analysis will enable simultaneous amplification of up to 20 target genes per tube in a single reaction more...

INTEGRA Helps Forsyth Institute Increase Pipetting Workflow Efficiency

24 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOther

The VIAFLO Assist is flexible in the lab and can be used for multiple applications including Luminex, ELISAs, PCR, or any other plate based assays more...

Have You Checked out the CDC/NARMS Antibiotic Resistance Data Tool?

24 Aug 2015 | Food & BeverageClinical

The CDC/NARMS interactive tool allows review of the antibiotic resistance patterns of 4 major pathogens in the USA since 1996 more...

PositiveID Successfully Detects MRSA in Less than 20 Minutes

18 Aug 2015 | Clinical

The MRSA assay was run on the Firefly Dx prototype system, which the company is developing to be a handheld, fully automated, lab quality, real-time device. more...

FDA Pre-Market Approval for the BioPlex 2200 HIV Ag-Ab Assay

17 Aug 2015 | Clinical

The BioPlex 2200 HIV Ag-Ab assay offers early detection of HIV by detecting HIV antigens and consequent early treatment of patients more...

Understanding M40-A2. Are Your Swabs Compliant?

14 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOther

Dr Monika Stuczen, Medical Wire & Equipment Co will be giving a free to attend talk on CLSI M40-A2 compliance for transport swabs at this year's IBMS congress in Birmingham, UK. more...

Roche Acquires GeneWEAVE - Sample-In/Susceptibility-Out

14 Aug 2015 | Clinical

Smarticles combine with the target species DNA causing the organism to produce luciferase - drug resistant organisms become detectable by luminescence measurement. more...

Should Klebsiella be Added to the List of Risky Bacteria in Food Products?

11 Aug 2015 | Food & BeverageClinical

A study found that some Klebsiella isolates from meat products and patients with infections were nearly identical using genome sequencing more...

200 Sample TwistAmp® Kits Give Away

11 Aug 2015 | Food & BeverageClinical

TwistDx announce the first viable alternative to PCR for every day lab work in over 30 years more...

MERS-CoV Kit Receives Emergency Use Authorization

11 Aug 2015 | Clinical

altona Diagnostics Receives Emergency Use Authorization of RealStar® MERS CoV RT-PCR Kit U.S. more...

Chromogenic ID Software Counts and Identifies from Plates

10 Aug 2015 | Food & BeverageClinicalOtherVeterinary

Automatic colony counting and identification from chromogenic media

Automatic generation of accurate, objective microbial identification and colony counts. more...

Shuttered Fluoresent Illumination System for Sensitive Samples

07 Aug 2015 | ClinicalOtherPharmaceutical

The Lumen 200S minimises thermal drift and aids image stability in long term experiments, bulb life is approx. 10 times longer than of a conventional mercury bulb. more...