The Unyvero System is a versatile hardware platform for the detection of a broad panel of bacteria and antibiotic resistances from a single sample in one run. It processes a disposable cartridge providing the necessary reagents to complete the analysis from sample to report. The Unyvero P50 Pneumonia Cartridge is the first cartridge developed by Curetis and focuses on pathogen as well as antibiotic resistance testing for pneumonia. Each cartridge handles one patient sample and simultaneously analyses 39 DNA targets. Results are available within less than 4 hours. This technology offers the fast, precise and automated diagnosis of infectious disease agents and their antibiotic resistances, contributing to improved clinical outcomes and limiting the risk of increasing antibiotic resistance.
Read more

Trinity Biotech’s Uni-GoldTM HSV-2 Rapid is a single use immunoassay for the qualititative detection of human IgG class antibodies to HSV-2 in human whole blood (venous or capillary) or serum. This product is the newest addition to the Uni-GoldTM range of STD rapid tests. This easy to use test features a 2 step procedure, giving results within 15 minutes. Used as a frontline screening assay, the Uni-GoldTM HSV-2 Rapid complements the company’s confirmatory CaptiaTM HSV Type Specific ELISA assays. The Uni-GoldTM HSV-2 Rapid will ensure communities and STD clinics can detect HSV-2 faster and more accurately at Point-Of-Impact. The HSV-2 test now joins Trinity’s established HIV test as part of the Uni-GoldTM brand of Point-Of-Impact rapid tests.
Read more

REMISOL Advance* data management system from Beckman Coulter is a unique software product that consolidates patient test information from multiple instruments in the lab. REMISOL Advance is also able to manage multiple labs in the hospital network utilizing a single server. It streamlines laboratory workflow as well as the result-management process, offering an optional Extended Quality Control (EQC) module, enhancing the laboratory quality control process even further.

REMISOL Advance optimizes lab operations by helping decrease turnaround times for results reporting, standardizing laboratory processes and enabling the connectivity of multiple instruments through a single point of management. REMISOL Advance, in unison with EQC, provides an integrated view of the analyzers’ QC status with patient results to make confident decisions on releasing patient results. Audit and traceability features allow all events related to the creation, modification or deletion of a result to be saved for later reference.

*_{^{REMISOL Advance is a trademark of Normand-Info SAS.}}

Read more

Nail infections are caused by dermatophytes, most commonly by Trichophyton rubrum, followed by Trichophyton mentagrophytes. As onychomycosis requires long-term systemic antifungal treatment, the correct identification of causal fungi is mandatory. The time required for traditional species identification by culture ranges from two to four weeks. With SSI™ Dermatophyte PCR Kit dermatophytes, and T. rubrum specifically, can be detected within five hours. Also, a study has showed that this multiplex PCR method increases the detection of pan-dermatophytes by 4.3% and T.rubrum by 18.6% compared with conventional methods (Brillowska-Dabrowska A, et al. Jour Clin Microbiol 2007; 1200). Hence SSI® Dermatophyte PCR Kit is a time- and cost-effective alternative. SSI® Dermatophyte PCR Kit is CE-marked. It contains all reagents and controls needed to perform a multiplex PCR detection of dermatophytes causing fungal infections in nails. It comes in boxes with material for 100 tests.
Read more

The finding that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients often produce antibodies against citrullinated peptides and proteins was a major advance both in understanding the mechanisms that trigger the disease and in its early diagnosis. Citrulline is a “nonstandard” amino acid that forms in the inflammatory environment as a result of the action of the enzyme peptidiliargininine deaminase on arginine residues present in proteins. Anti-citrullinated peptides are produced locally in the synovium of RA patients. The introduction of new immunoassays based on specially selected cyclic citrullinated peptides (CCP), allowed the development of tests with sensitivity equal to or better than traditional rheumatoid factor (RF), but with a much higher specificity. In addition to this, it was demonstrated that the presence of anti-CCP is both an early marker of AR (anti-CCP can be found up to 10 years before the onset of symptoms) and a marker of the severity of the disease. DIESSE is offering the new second generation anti-CCP Chorus kit to complete its line of tests for the serological diagnosis of systemic inflammatory diseases, in the convenient and pratical single determination format.
Read more