MRSA Notes

Rapid lab test promises effectiveness against MRSA

Acolyte Biomedica introduces a new platform for its MRSA test, which promises to set the benchmark for laboratory-based screening of the bacterium by confirming negatives in five hours and positives within 24 hours.

The news is encouraging as one of the reasons MRSA has become so prolific is the inability to detect the bacterium within the crucial time period. Current processes are time-consuming and labour-intensive.

The new platform, designed for the company’s BacLite Rapid MRSA test, allows a maximum throughput with up to 45 tests per run with one-minute hands on time per specimen.

BacLite flex is the only available objective rapid screening test for MRSA, which is culture-based and therefore able to differentiate between viable and dead cells.

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