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03 March 2003

GENETIC FINGERPRINTS OF ANY BACTERIUM IN LESS THAN 8 HOURS

The DuPont Qualicon RiboPrinter® microbial characterisation system is now available from Oxoid in Europe and Australia and provides an automated genetic fingerprint ( RiboPrint ™ pattern) of any bacterium in less than 8 hours.

RiboPrint ™ patterns let you characterise spoilage organisms, pathogens, beneficial organisms or any bacterium important to you. No specialist operator skills are required.

With the RiboPrinter® system restriction enzyme flexibility, you can ribotype bacteria using either the pre-packaged restriction enzymes or one of your choice, while retaining the advantages of full automation.

The ever-expanding identification database now includes over 5700 patterns, covering more than 180 genera and 1200 species. This broad coverage extends to organisms of great importance to pharmaceutical, food safety and public health industries, and includes lactic acid bacteria.

The RiboPrinter® system Data sharing system allows authorised users to electronically share databases of bacterial strains allowing labs to quickly and easily compare, analyse and automatically store genetic "fingerprint" information.

Features of this networking system offer a wide range of data-pooling possibilities:

• Universities and hospitals can give many analysts access to data generated by one instrument.
• A central quality control laboratory can efficiently compile and analyse data from remote plants or labs.
• Regulatory agencies can collect and analyse data from numerous places to monitor the spread of bacteria.
• Data from various sites can be consolidated into larger, more refined groupings helping with analysis of information that has been collected over time and from different locations.
• Service labs can rapidly share data with authorized customers.

Additionally, information sharing is secure because only data with unique host-assigned tags can be copied. Transfers are automated and can be scheduled to run out-of-hours.

For further information please select from the items below:

Download:
a) the product datasheet in PDF format
b) case studies in PDF format

Pink: System Components
Purple: Shades of a mystery organism: Appearance can fool a lab, but genetic fingerprints won’t
Blue: Drug developers can’t leave identification of potentially lethal organisms to chance
Dk Green: Product quality’s hidden opponents might be easier to beat than ever before
Orange: What’s in a name?

c) How it works diagram
d) Ribotyping article from Cleanroom Technology magazine

Or go to the product entry page on the web site

Alternatively, speak to your local Oxoid representative for further details.