‘Penicillin’

A Laboratorytalk guide

Start with the news release Pharm Titrando analyses pharmaceutical products from Metrohm UK, which we summarised at the time by saying "The Pharm Titrando from Metrohm is based on the 907 Titrando and offers a complete package for the most common analyses of pharmaceutical products.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Online SPE-LC-MS assay for antibiotics in milk from Spark Holland: "Spark Holland has used online SPE-LC-MS/MS to develop a fully automated, quantitative assay for beta-lactam antibiotics in milk.".

In March 2009, we covered the news from CalBioreagents - take a look at Monoclonal antibodies take on MRSA which says: "Calbioreagents has released six monoclonal antibodies for MRSA.".

Take a look also at the news release from TwistDx, MRSA test wins NHS competition, as well as Test cuts hospital death rates by 42% from AdvanDx, and Redefining pill counting for smaller pharmacies from Marco.

Latest stories...

Rapid screening of MRSA in the USA (November 2007)

Bio-Rad Laboratories has announced the introduction to the US market of its MRSASelect test, a chromogenic medium used for the rapid screening of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)

Haptogen bought by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals (October 2007)

Haptogen was founded in 2002 as a spin-out of the University of Aberdeen, and its facilities are located on the University of Aberdeen campus

Panbio surmounts effect of B-lactamase inhibitors (October 2006)

Medical diagnostics company Panbio has advanced development of its homogeneous assay technology to minimise the effects of factors that might potentially cause interference in the assay

Biotech firm in fight against hospital superbugs (October 2006)

A company at the forefront of the fight against the MRSA superbug is developing new technology to speed up tests for other potentially deadly hospital infections

Analysis of Amoxicillin using LCMS (March 2006)

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has published the application note, Analysis of Amoxicillin using the LCMS-2010EV and the LCMS-IT-Tof

Water vapour permeability testing of medical packs (March 2006)

This article briefs on the testing principle of water vapour permeability testing by the electrolytic analysis method and its application in the testing of medicine packaging materials

Extended range for MRSA detection (November 2005)

The latex particles in Staphaurex Plus are coated with fibrinogen and specific polyclonal antibodies directed towards difficult staph aureus strains, including MRSA and MSSA

Detect and confirm antibiotic-resistant organisms (September 2004)

With continuing concern over antibiotic-resistant organisms, it is vitally important that clinicians have the best information possible about a patient's illness before prescribing