BACT/ALERT Culture Media

BACT/ALERT Culture Media

Strong Outside, Strong Inside

BACT/ALERT Culture media offers an ideal environment for recovering an array of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria.

  • Media flexibility allows recovery of microorganisms from many sample types, including blood and sterile body fluids
  • Minimizes false negatives using a combination of colorimetric technology and sophisticated algorithms
  • Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization media available, in addtion to standard media
  • Plastic bottles are shatter-resistant to maximize safety without compromising performance
Brands:Biomerieux
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  • Description
  • FAN® PLUS & FAN® MEDIA

Description

Minimize False Negatives

BACT/ALERT Culture media combines colorimetric technology with sophisticated algorithms to minimize the incidence of false negatives due to delayed entry into the BACT/ALERT® 3D system.  Specialized Liquid Emulsion Sensors (LES) at the bottom of each culture bottle visibly change color in response to shifts in pH as a result of rising CO2 levels produced by microorganisms.

The BACT/ALERT® 3D instrument measures the color changes every ten minutes and analyzes them using algorithms that include a unique “threshold” algorithm to ensure early detection of microorganisms.  In the event that bottles are delayed in transit, the visible, irreversible color change helps identify potentially positive bottles before they are entered into the system.  In addition to minimizing false negatives, BACT/ALERT Culture Media also has a low rate of false positives.

Reliable Microorganism Recovery

BACT/ALERT Culture Media provides a wide range of media bottles to rapidly and reliably recover an array of microorganisms, including bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, and yeasts from various sample types.  BACT/ALERT Culture Media is FDA-cleared for blood, sterile body fluids, and platelets, and can detect 98% of isolates within 72 hours.*

  • Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization media helps optimize microorganism recovery for patients who are undergoing antimicrobial therapy
  • Specialized bottles designed for recovery of mycobacteria

Improve Safety & Efficiency

BACT/ALERT Culture Media bottles are made with a unique polycarbonate material and feature a triple-layer, gas-impermeable design that maintains the appropriate aerobic or anaerobic environment for microorganism recovery.  The bottles can help eliminate accidental spills and are shatter-resistant, which helps reduce the potential for biohazard exposure and glass cuts. BACT/ALERT bottles are up to 2/3 lighter than glass, can adapt to a variety of protocols, and enable pneumatic transport without a special container.

Optimized Time to Detection and Microorganism Recovery

The next-generation Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization Plus media (FAN Plus) from bioMérieux features optimized time to detection and microorganism recovery with an improved environment that fosters microbial growth for bacteria and yeast.  FAN® Plus media offers effective organism growth from both blood and sterile body fluid samples, along with growth performance guidelines for use in delayed entry conditions.

Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization Plus Media (FAN® Plus)

FAN Plus media with Adsorbent Polymeric Beads (APB) to neutralize antimicrobials

Bottle Type Media Formulation Specimen Type Specimen Volume
BACT/ALERT® FA Plus
Ref: 410851
30 mL of supplemented complex media containing adsorbent polymeric beads Blood or normally sterile body fluid (SBF) Up to 10 mL
BACT/ALERT® FN Plus
Ref: 410852
40 mL of supplemented complex media containing adsorbent polymeric beads Blood or SBF Up to 10 mL
BACT/ALERT® PF Plus
Ref: 410853
30 mL of supplemented complex media containing adsorbent polymeric beads Blood Up to 4 mL

 

Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization Media (FAN®)

FAN media with activated charcoal to neutralize antimicrobials

Bottle Type Media Formulation Specimen Type Specimen Volume
BACT/ALERT® FA FAN®
Aerobic
Ref: 259791
30 mL peptone-enriched TSB, supplemented with Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) solids and activated charcoal Blood or normally sterile body fluid (SBF) Up to 10 mL
BACT/ALERT® FN FAN®
Anaerobic
Ref: 259793
40 mL peptone-enriched TSB, supllemented with BHI solids and activated charcoal Blood or SBF Up to 10 mL
BACT/ALERT® PF
Pediatric FAN®
Ref: 259794
20 mL peptone-enriched TSB, supplemented with BHI solids and activated charcoal Blood Up to 4 mL