ERBA Mannheim
MIKROLATEST MIC Range
MIKROLATEST ID Range
MIKROLATEST BP Range
For 50 years, the Erba Group has been developing & manufacturing products for urine analysis, clinical chemistry and bacterial identification. Their mission is to provide high quality, easily accessible products for reliable, quick and comfortable analyses to shorten the time for patient treatment. Erba are able to offer a wide spectrum of progressive products focused on high reliability for analysis.
Colistin MIC AST kits
Single-Strip Broth Microdilution
Piperacillin-tazobactam MIC AST kits
MIKROLATEST MIC
MIKROLATEST MIC offers precise and quantitative determination of minimum inhibitory concentration of antimicrobial agents, which inhibit visible growth of bacteria. This microdilution method is based on rehydration of antibiotics by suspension media in individual wells.
There are two formats available for MIKROLATEST MIC kits:
- 6 different panels to cover antibiotic susceptibility testing of a wide range of most pathogenic groups of bacteria. Each kit contains 10 determinations, which consist of 12 antibiotics in 8 concentrations, including the growth control.
- 20 single MIC Strips offering 36 determinations per kit.
This testing is based on broth micro-dilution methods that measures quantitatively in vitro activity of an antimicrobial agent against a bacterial isolate. The minimum inhibitory concentration is determined from a twofold dilution series (7 total concentrations with 1 growth control) as the lowest concentration of an antimicrobial agent that prevents visible growth of a microorganism.
- Susceptible - The microorganism is defined as susceptible by a level of antimicrobial activity associated with a high probability of therapeutic success.
- Susceptible, increased exposure - The microorganism is defined as susceptible with increased exposure by a level of antimicrobial activity associated with uncertain therapeutic effect.
- Resistant - The microorganism is defined as resistant by a level of antimicrobial activity associated with a high probability of therapeutic failure.
MIKROLATEST BP (SENSILATEST)
MIKROLATEST BP Kits are antibiotic susceptibility testing panels based on bacterial growth in breakpoint concentrations of defined antibiotics. Breakpoints refer to standards of the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST issued in 2011). Most of the antibiotics are represented by two (in exceptional cases one or three) breakpoint concentrations, which enable interpretation of either: sensitive, intermediate or resistant.
MIKROLATEST ID
MIKROLATEST ID offers a comfortable and reliable way to identify the most important bacteria and yeasts. Tests are placed on divided microplates with 1,2 or 3 row strips. Each plate contains strips for identification of 12, 6 or 4 strains, respectively. Only a relevant part of the plate, corresponding to the number of examined strains, can be used, the rest can be kept for further use. Reagents, suspension media, paraffin oil and additional tests can be supplied separately. Reagent necessary and non-reagent tests are available for most groups of micro-organisms. Non-reagent kits bring even more working comfort, and save time.
`There are a few different categories MIKROLATEST ID can be divided into:
- Identification Kits
- Diagnostic Strips
- Products for water microbiology
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The MIKROLATEST Catalogue
For information on specific panels, single strips or other tests, please see their catalogue to the left!
In your hands
Here is a (very old) photo of a Colistin MIC AST kit with P. aeruginosa. Even though the kits have changed over time, the result will still look the same.
Wells (From left to right (mg/L)): 1 - + Growth control, 2 - 0.0625, 3 - 0.125, 4 - 0.25, 5 - 0.5, 6 - 1, 7 -2, 8 - 4, 9 - 8, 10 - 16, 11 - 32, 12 - 64
Oof owie, my neck hurts!
As you can see from the photograph there is an adjustable mirror with slight amplification to make reading your MIC tests easier with less ergonomic strain.
