Q-linea nabs second contract in U.S. for ASTar instrument
March 2025—Q-linea announced that it has signed a second commercial contract for its ASTar instrumentation in the United States. Installation and training in a multihospital system will take place by the end of the first quarter this year. The quantitative antimicrobial susceptibility test system uses high-speed, time-lapse microscopy imaging of organisms in positive blood culture samples to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of specific antimicrobial-organism combinations.