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Bruker Announces Further Portfolio Expansion for Microbial Identification, Infection Control and Molecular Diagnostics of Infectious Diseases
AMSTERDAM, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.eccmid.org), Bruker announces new
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[{"type":"text","content":"AMSTERDAM, April 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (www.eccmid.org), Bruker announces new assays, software and library extensions for its MALDI Biotyper, IR Biotyper and Fluorocycler XT product lines for microbial identification, infection control and molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases. \nFor the MALDI Biotyper (MBT) platform, 238 new bacteria and yeast species have been added in the new CE-IVD marked in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) and research-use-only (RUO) reference libraries. This brings the number of different bacterial and fungal species that can be reliably and quickly identified with the CE-IVD marked MALDI Biotyper to 2,887. This achievement makes the MBT an almost universal and always evolving platform for fast microbial identification from isolates by molecular protein fingerprinting, with outstanding data quality and robustness, lower cost per ID, and dramatically broader identification scope than all other molecular platforms.\nA focus for the new MBT library expansions introduced at ECCMID 2019 is the rapid inclusion of emerging pathogens like Elizabethkingia anophelis, in order to keep MBT users up to date with the latest healthcare threats. Moreover, the MBT Mycobacteria Library (IVD & RUO) has been expanded by 14 species, and now covers 178 mycobacteria species. The MBT Filamentous Fungi Library (RUO) has been expanded by 27 new species, and now covers 180 fungal species. With the modular MBT bioinformatics architecture any new isolates of interest can be added for further learning and expansion of this 'gold standard' fast microbial ID system. In the MBT RUO library version, new isolates can even be added by trained microbiology customers themselves.\nFor higher throughput, the new MBT HT™ software (RUO) has been launched to support, e.g., larger microbiome research projects with a culturomics approach. The new MBT HT software significantly reduces the data analysis time per isolate using an optimized multi-threading approach. \nThe improved Sepsityper kit (CE-IVD) for rapid and cost-effective microbial ID from positive blood cultures (PBC) is now available with a new formulation that increases MBT ID rates even further. It also improves the PBC ID workflow and reduces hands-on time.\nMiriam Cordovana, Microbiologist in the Department of...