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2012 2011 2010

17 July 2012

IRIS International Announces Distribution Agreement With Alifax and Launch of ERS Automated Instrumentation

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January 2011

Publication of the first scientific paper entirely dedicated to Alfred60 titled “Evaluation of an automated method for urineculture screening” by C. Ballabio et al from University Service of Desio hospital Laboratory Medicine, Desio, Monza, Italy) in Microbiologia Medica, 2010, Vol. 25, N°3, 178-180

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6 December 2010

Released the CE certification for 25 lyophilised antibiotics for in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility test directly from liquid growth media or from isolated colony

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24-27 November 2010

Abstract presented at SIMIT (Itaian Society of Infectious and tropical disease) national congress, Rome, Italy by M. Carletti, et al. from the Paediatric Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy, titled “Evaluation of HB&L Uroquattro system for microbial counts in complex infected skin lesions”.

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9-13 October 2010

Poster presented at ESICM (European Society of Intensive Care Medicine) Annual congress, Barcelona, Spain, by C. Olivieri et al. from the University Hospital of Charity of Novara, Italy, titled “Rapid assessment of antibiotic susceptibility in positive blood culture

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5-8 October 2010

Poster presented at the 42° SiBioC (Italian Society of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) National congress, Roma, Italy by S. Oddera et al. from the Clin Pathology Dep.- Microbiology, San Carlo di Voltri, Asl3 Genovese, Italy, titled “Management of large workloads in Bacteriology: experience on completely Automated urine culture process”.

created: 23/04/2011 10.35.48

October 2010

Publication of the scientific paper titled “Evaluation of the HB&L system for the culture of prosthetic and osteoarticular origin samples” by A. Ronca, et al from Microbiology Dep. - Infectious diseases Unit Asl 2 Pietra Ligure (SV), Italy in Microbiologia Medica, Anno 2010, Vol. 25, N° 2, 108-109

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July 2010

Publication of the scientific paper titled “Preliminary indications for antibiotic susceptibility tests in less than six hour in positive blood cultures” by V. Kroumova, G. Fortina et al. from Microbiology and Virology laboratory, University Hospital of Charity of Novara, Italy in Microbiologia Medica, Anno 2010, Vol. 25, N° 1, 24-26

created: 20/04/2011 10.36.56

July 2010

Publication of the scientific paper titled “HB&L System: rapid determination of antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria isolated from blood cultures” by S. Barocci et al. from Microbiology Unit, Clinical Pathology Laboratories ASUR 4 Senigallia (AN), Italy in Microbiologia Medica, Anno 2010, Vol. 25, N° 1, 60-63

created: 19/04/2011 10.37.28

23-27 May 2010

Poster presented at ASM (American Society for Microbiology) Annual congress, San Diego CA titled “Rapid Identification of Bacteria from Urine using the ALIFAX HB&L Uroquattro incubator followed by MALDI Biotyper identification” by M. Kostrzewa et al. from Bremen and Cologne University, Germany. 23-27 May 2010.

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11 June 2010

AMCLI (Italian Association of Clinical Microbiologist) convention about Alifax technology titled “Rapid diagnosis in bacteriology: comparing experiences” was held at the Loano Village convention centre, Savona, Italy

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June 2010

Publication of the scientific paper titled “Evaluation of the Uro4 HB&L system for the rapid diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections in intensive care units” by A. Tessari, G. Palù et al. from Department of Histology, Microbiology and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Padova, Italy in Journal of Microbiological Methods 2010 Jun; 81(3):235-9.

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April 2010

Publication of the scientific paper titled “Rapid reporting of urine culture results: impact of the uro-quick screening system” by A. Ilki, et al. from Marmara University, Medical Faculty, Department of Microbiology, Haydarpasa, Istanbul, Turkey in New Microbiologica 2010 Apr; 33(2):147-53

created: 09/04/2011 10.39.31

10-13 April 2010

Oral presentation at the 20th ECCMID (European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases), Vienna, Austria titled “Speeding up identification of bacteria from urine by the use of an Alifax HB&L Uroquattro incubator followed by Maldi Biotyper identification” by U. Weller from Bremen and Cologne University, Germany.

created: 03/04/2011 10.40.09