Microbiology News: Apr 2015

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Microbiology News: Apr 2015

OFS & SSL – Ready-to-use Culture Media for Beverage Spoiling Organisms

30 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

Ready-to-use broth and agar culture media for easy detection of yeast, mould, lactic and acidic bacteria in soft drink, dairy and winery samples. more...

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...

Reduce False Negs with Heipha ICRplus Neutralizer A Contact Plates

27 Apr 2015 | OtherPharmaceutical

Intended for environmental monitoring of cleanrooms and isolators, plate media inactivates range of disinfectant residues including PHMB and QACs. 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...

Mérieux NutriSciences Acquires ABC Research Laboratories

21 Apr 2015 | Food & Beverage

With the takeover of ABC Research Labs, Mérieux NutriSciences now has two full-service labs in Florida providing food testing and consulting services. 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...

VWR to Distribute DuPont™ BAX® System in USA

21 Apr 2015 | Food & Beverage

VWR granted exclusive rights within the US to sell DuPont™ BAX® System Q7 instrument, assays and related products as its only PCR-based pathogen detection solution to the food industry. 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...

Limulus Color KY Series Can Detect Endotoxin to 0.0002EU/ml

16 Apr 2015 | OtherPharmaceutical

A time-based colorimetric test using a synthetic substrate which produces a yellow color, specifically detecting endotoxin with high sensitivity. 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...

IDEXX Water Division Earns ISO/IEC-17025:2005 Accreditation

13 Apr 2015 | Water

IDEXX are now ISO/IEC- 17025:2005 accredited which saves laboratories time and improves efficiency by reducing the amount of quality control (QC) testing required. 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...

NBB®-B-AM for Easy Detection of Indicator Organisms from Biofilms

13 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

NBB®-B-AM is a ready-to-use culture media for detection of indicator microorganisms from biofilms as part of an environmental monitoring schedule. more...

Inhomogeneous Dilution Poses a Potential Risk to Food Quality & Safety

13 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

Automated serial dilutions with the Inlabtec Serial Diluter removes the risk of inaccurate bacterial counts that may compromise food quality testing and also eliminates RSI risk. 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...

Research Project Explores New Genera for Probiotics

09 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageOtherVeterinary

NCIMB and Probiotics International collaborate to explore the potential of new genera in the development of novel probiotic food supplements and functional food products. 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...

RIDA®STAMP – Agar Plates for Direct Stamps – Now Available!

07 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageWaterOtherPharmaceuticalCosmetic/Personal Care

RIDA®STAMP are specially designed ready-to-use plates filled with specific agar, providing complete contact to a test surface – just open the plate, stamp, close lid, incubate and count! more...

Same Shift Aerobic Bacteria Results - AOAC-RI PTM Certified

07 Apr 2015 | Food & BeverageOther

MicroSnap Total is a small, simple, low cost detection system that detects down to 1-10 bacteria in 7 hours, also detects high numbers in as little as 1 - 2 hours. more...

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07 Apr 2015 | Other

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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...

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