Bruker Announces Multiple Placements of MALDI Biotyper Systems with Various German Federal, State & Local Governmental Author...
December 10 2012 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
Bruker today announces multiple placements of MALDI Biotyper
systems for rapid, differentiated and cost-effective microbial
identification with various local, state and federal authorities
and institutes in Germany. These local authorities are responsible
for public health, animal health, food safety, consumer protection,
agriculture and fisheries.
In recent years, European clinical laboratories have been
increasingly performing routine microbial identification using
MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. In contrast to previous biochemical
testing methods, the MALDI Biotyper offers the benefit of very fast
identification with results available in a few minutes starting
from a culture plate. Additionally, the MALDI Biotyper reference
library has broader coverage of microbial species as compared to
commercially available biochemical methods and is applicable for
isolates obtained from food safety and consumer protection sources.
Frequently, isolates from these sources are not sufficiently
represented in previous commercial identification systems.
Microbial identification with the MALDI Biotyper is done using a
proteomic fingerprint. This unique species-specific pattern is
automatically compared with proteomic fingerprints of reference
spectra from more than 2100 species in the MALDI Bioptyper library.
In addition, the MALDI Biotyper supports the Open Microbiology
Concept which allows customers to generate their own entries from
their own regional isolates via a push-button process and storage
in a customer-specific sub-library.
Among recent new MALDI Biotyper customers are state and local
authorities in Baden-Württemberg (www.ua-bw.de), Stuttgart (CVUA
Stuttgart), Karlsruhe (CVUA Karlsruhe), Freiburg (CVUA Freiburg)
and Aulendorf (STUA Aulendorf). Additional orders were received
from authorities in Arnsberg (STUA Arnsberg), Rostock (LALLF
Rostock, www.lallf.de) and Bad Langensalza
(www.thueringen.de/de/tllv). Previously, authorities in Oldenburg
(www.laves.niedersachsen.de), Krefeld (CVUA Krefeld) and
Oberschleißheim (www.lgl.bayern.de) have implemented the MALDI
Biotyper workflow.
Recently, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
(Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, Berlin, www.bfr.bund.de) and
the Industry Control Office Hildesheim
(www.gewerbeaufsicht.niedersachsen.de) have also chosen the MALDI
Biotyper. As a result, a wide range of German state and local
authorities, regulatory bodies and federal control institutes now
rely on Bruker's MALDI Biotyper solution for their microbial
identification requirements. Bruker complies with ISO 9001 and ISO
13485 requirements for quality management in its MALDI Biotyper
production facilities in Bremen (Germany) and in Billerica,
Massachusetts (USA) in compliance with the strict quality assurance
requirements of this customer group.
Dr. J�rg Rau at the CVUA Stuttgart commented: “In our laboratory
we have utilized Bruker´s FT-IR spectroscopy instruments for a
number of years. We see a general trend that such modern physical
techniques increasingly replace outdated biochemical testing.
Accordingly, it was a logical step to introduce also a MALDI-TOF MS
based workflow with the MALDI Biotyper in our laboratory for broad
identification and typing purposes to complement the FT-IR
spectrometer. It is especially helpful that the MALDI Biotyper
reference library is an open system, where we can add our own
isolates, if needed. We can even exchange these new entries between
our cooperating laboratory sites in Baden-Württemberg.”
Dr. Wolfgang Pusch, Executive Vice President - Microbiology
Business at Bruker Daltonics, added: “We are pleased that these
authorities involved in consumer protection, food safety and risk
assessment have selected the MALDI Biotyper for their microbiology
labs. This clearly indicates that the Bruker MALDI Biotyper is
setting new standards for high-quality, rapid and cost-effective
methods for microbial identification for these laboratories. We see
food safety testing as one of the additional broad application
fields for our MALDI Biotyper systems.”
About the Bruker MALDI Biotyper
The dedicated MALDI Biotyper solution enables molecular
identification, and taxonomical classification or dereplication of
microorganisms like bacteria, yeasts and fungi. Classification and
identification of microorganisms is achieved reliably and quickly
using proteomic fingerprinting by high-throughput MALDI-TOF mass
spectrometry. Applications include clinical routine microbial
identification, environmental and pharmaceutical analysis,
taxonomical research, food and consumer product safety and quality
control, as well as marine microbiology. The robust MALDI Biotyper
method requires minimal sample preparation and offers low
consumables cost. The MALDI Biotyper is available in a
research-use-only version, or in an IVD-CE version according to EU
directive EC/98/79 in various European countries.
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