CAP TODAY Pathology/Laboratory Medicine/Laboratory Management
August 2021—Bruker launched, at the 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, products and methods for its MALDI Biotyper platform.
The MBT Lipid Xtract Kit, for research use only, facilitates sample preparation for analysis of microbial lipids, enabling fast resistance detection based on MALDI-TOF analysis of lipid A modifications, on the company’s MALDI Biotyper Sirius using the negative ion mode.
The company also introduced the MBT Fast Shuttle IVD, for research use only. It is a benchtop tool to standardize and optimize drying conditions for faster matrix crystallization and quicker drying of other droplet assays for sample preparation. The MBT Mycobacteria kit, also new, is a preparation kit for mycobacteria after culture that allows fast sample preparation and safe inactivation by avoiding the need to boil mycobacteria samples, the company says. It is used in combination with the MBT Mycobacteria library and software module.