The identification of microbes can be a slow, expensive and uncertain process.
The MIDI Sherlock system can change this. Sherlock uses the patterns of fatty acids contained within the organism’s cell wall to characterise micro organisms. The process involved is fast, inexpensive, simple, and needs no prior knowledge of the organism. All samples are processed in the same way, so the outcome is not reliant upon guess-work on behalf of the operator.
Sherlock can be used as the first stage in the identification process, relegating expensive and time-consuming biochemical or DNA methods to the role of confirmatory techniques. Sherlock speeds up the processing of cultures, reduces your cost per sample and improves the certainly of identification.
Sherlock uses cellular fatty acid (FAME) analysis to identify over 1,500 anaerobic bacterial species fast and at a cost of just a few pounds per sample. Robust, reliable and simple to use, an optional software module enables over 2,200 microbial species to be identified by 16S and 28S rRNA gene sequencing. DNA sequence results may be combined with FAME data to identify more than 2,500 species. The first time this has been possible.
Full validation and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance packages are available.
To register and download literature: Sherlock Microbial Identification System.
For more information email: enquiries@anatune.co.uk or telephone 01954 212909 for technical advice.