BioVitrum Company Presents Oxoid (England) and Remel (USA) in the Center of Hygienic and Epidemiological of Saint-Petersburg
June 7, 2010: Center of Hygienic and Epidemiological of Saint-Petersburg received BioVitrum Company specialists who presented products by Oxoid (England) and Remel (USA), the world manufacturers of microbiology reagents.
The event took place in the reference laboratory of clinical microbiology of the North-West Region and gathered leading bacteriologists both from the Hygienic and Epidemiological Center of Saint-Petersburg and a number of municipal hospitals.
The bacteriological laboratory of the Center performs various tests, including clinical materials and samples from the food industry, cosmetics, environment, restricted areas, water, soil, sterile medical products etc. Taking into account a wide array of laboratory experiments BioVitrum’s specialists presented the complete range of Oxoid and Remel products. They answer the purposes of diagnostic bacteriological testing and of sanitary and bacteriological testing for the safety profile.
Mostly the microbiological testing is performed for diagnosis: to detect pathogenic agents, to indicate parasitic organisms in a human body etc. A wide range of Oxoid and Remel products provides all the required reagents. The presentation included: M.I.C.E stripes with antibiotics gradient to detect MIC; Isolator 1.5 system to isolate fastidious organisms from small-volume (1.5ml) pediatric blood samples and other sterile fluids. The unique Signal, a manual one-step blood culture system by Oxoid aroused much interest. One bottle system allows to grow both aerobes and anaerobes and to receive results within 3 hours after the incubation.
Brilliance Candida agar and Brilliance Bacillus cereus agar, dehydrated chromogenic culture media, were presented to microbiologists.
Brilliance™ Bacillus cereus Agar is the chromogenic culture to isolate and differentiate Bacillus cereus from food samples. Brilliance™ Candida Agar is the selective culture for rapid isolation and differentiation of five clinically important Candida species: C. albicans, C. tropicalis, C. krusei, C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis. Chromogenic Oxoid media feature in a prolonged life (up to 3 years) that is connected with their dehydration and high quality according to the international standards.
In conclusion one should point out the high organizational level of the event. BioVitrum Company team express special thanks to Natalya Sergeevna Grigirieva, the head of Center of Hygienic and Epidemiological of Saint-Petersburg’ bacteriological laboratory, for her help rendered at the presentation.
About BioVitrum
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BioVitrum has been operating in the Russian market for more than 8 years and in addition to the reputation of a reliable business partner and a supplier of up-to-date solutions, has become known as the company actively taking part in the development of the Russian science and introducing the world technologies into the Russian medical practice. The major activity is the supply of equipment and consumables for laboratory studies and diagnostics. Its partners are the worldly known manufacturers with many years of expertise and quality traditions.
About Oxoid
English company Oxoid is a world greatest manufacturer of microbiology reagents and equipment that meets the highest international standards ISO. It has been on the market since 1924 and produces culture media, their components and supplements, tests and identification kits, atmosphere generation and blood culture systems, antimicrobial susceptibility discs and strips, collection and transportation products.
About Remel
Since 1973 the Company has been manufacturing the high quality products for microbiology laboratories, i.e. culture media and supplements, transportation systems, immunological tests and biochemical identification, stains for microscopic examination. At present Remel enters Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leading producer of laboratory equipment.
