21
Rapid Diagnosis of the Causes of Gastroenteritis Oxoid is pleased to announce that the ProSpecTTM
and Triturus®
range of qualitative enzyme immunoassays has recently been extended to include test kits for Adenovirus,
Astrovirus, Clostridium difficile, Campylobacter, Cryptosporidium, Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia, Giardia/Cryptosporidium, Rotavirus, Shiga Toxin Escherichia coli. These easy-to-use, diagnostic tests for enteric infectious disease (gastroenteritis), caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites, require minimal hands-on time, are suitable for automated protocols (DSXTM
) and provide results in less than two hours. The test kits have common substrate, wash buffer and stop solution, plus colour-coded kit-specific components for ease of handling.
Gastroenteritis is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines. The main symptom is diarrhoea, with other symptoms, such as abdominal pain, cramping, nausea and vomiting, also seen. The diarrhoea and vomiting can lead to patients, particularly young children and the elderly, rapidly becoming dehydrated. Although many cases do not require hospitalisation, it is estimated that gastroenteritis causes 5-10 million deaths per year worldwide.
Gastroenteritis may be caused by viral, bacterial or parasitic infections, with the most common routes of infection being food, contaminated water or contact with an infected person. Although anyone may become infected, people at a higher risk include young children, the elderly, immunocompromised people and travellers. Rapid, differential diagnosis of the cause of infection is important, both for patient treatment and appropriate infection control measures. ProSpecT tests are quick and easy to perform, giving sensitive and specific results for the majority of causes of gastroenteritis.
LAB PRODUCTS Circle no. 568
Assay Improving Detection of Myocardial Injury Roche Diagnostics is pleased to announce that the new Elecsys®
Troponin T high sensitive (hs) assay, for use on cobas®
and MODULAR Analytics serum work
areas, is soon to be available to hospital laboratories in the UK and Ireland. This highly sensitive diagnostic assay has been developed to improve the detection of myocardial injury and to help identify risk of acute coronary syndromes, detecting Troponin T in the range of 0.003-10 ng/ml of serum or plasma.
Cardiac Troponins (Troponin T and Troponin I) are good indicators of myocardial injury due to their specificity for heart injury and because levels of these markers remain elevated in blood for an extended period of time. Even a small elevation in cardiac Troponin may indicate damage to the heart and require clinical intervention, and so new guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) recommend a highly sensitive Troponin assay with excellent precision in the low end values (10% or less total variation at the 99th percentile of the reference range).
The new Elecsys® Troponin T hs assay meets the precision recommendations in the ESC/ACC guidelines. The improved sensitivity of the assay is of great
diagnostic and prognostic value, not only in patients with acute coronary syndromes, but also in stable patients with a variety of cardiac disorders. The sensitivity and precision of this new assay will enable more patients with ischaemic symptoms to be identified at an earlier stage, allowing earlier and more targeted treatment.
Although both Troponin T and Troponin I are good indicators of myocardial injury, the highly sensitive detection of Troponin T offered by the Elecsys® different assays, Roche offers the largest menu of tests available on an automated Serum Work Area platform. LAB PRODUCTS Circle no. 569 ADVERTORIAL Yorlab Open New Offices and Workshops
Yorlab are pleased to announce the opening of their new offices and workshops in Dunnington, near York. The Company has made a significant investment in plant and machinery at the new Dunnington site. “The opening of our new site enables us to strengthen our leading position in the laboratory supply market; “it’s definitely a great opportunity,” said Mark Walsh, Sales Manager. The new facilities consist of a glassblowing workshop, a new warehouse, an engineering workshop and a new sales office with extra phone lines and a dedicated customer service station. The brand new workshops are equipped with modern cutting, grinding, polishing, edging, drilling and sandblasting facilities. Yorlab offer a modifications and repairs service for most standard items of laboratory glassware and equipment, and also have a bespoke design manufacture service that is able to find solutions to the most challenging of tasks. A recent addition to the Yorlab remit is a specialist electrical service. Here, as well as offering repair and servicing of all electrical laboratory equipment, they can now offer a bespoke manufacture service for laboratory test equipment. Yorlab also supply laboratory equipment nationwide to industrial, educational and pharmaceutical laboratories from small replacement parts to complete wipe wall systems. Yorlab are able to offer their customers a complete service.
At the Dunnington site are 20 skilled workers and apprentices, with 3 at the Durham branch, all providing an excellent service.
“We believe that customer service is the lifeblood of our business and aim to achieve excellence for all our customers. We try to send our customers away happy enough to pass positive feedback about our business along to others, who we hope will then try our service,” said Julie Gill, Customer Service.
YORLAB
PRODUCTS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY. REACTION SYSTEM • ASTM GLASSWARE • WIPE WALL UNITS BIOLOGICAL VESSELS • CUSTOM PRODUCTS
OUR TEAM OF GLASSBLOWERS AND ENGINEERS OFFER A UNIQUE SERVICE.
‘MAKING A SCIENCE OUT OF AN ART ’
Troponin T hs assay is advantageous in patients with certain
medical conditions, for example, in the risk assessment of chronic renal failure patients and in helping to select patients that suffer from acute coronary syndrome for more intensive therapy and intervention. The availability of the Elecsys®
Troponin T hs assay will allow laboratories to consolidate their cardiac assays on a single integrated clinical chemistry and immunoassay platform (Serum Work Area). With 183
Yorlab are launching their new catalogue at the end of the year so look out for your copy, or drop them an e-mail to make sure you are on their mailing list -
sales@yorlab.co.uk
Additional investment is expected towards the end of 2009, “We feel really proud of what we have achieved… with a lot of hard work and commitment we have created a unique facility, the sky is the limit,” said Alex Davis, Managing Director, Yorlab.
Circle no. 570
EMAIL:
SALES@YORLAB.CO.UK TEL.01904 488599 FAX.01904 489358 Circle no. 571
LABMATE UK & IRELAND - AUGUST 2009
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32
