MMTC - The company is continually adding more and more identifiers to their library. From the most recent 10Q...
In December 2013, the Company announced that its MIT 1000 System can now identify the potentially life-threatening bacteria Staphylococcus . Staph is one of the five most common causes of infections after injury or surgery and can lead to very serious complications with the lung (pneumonia), brain (meningitis), bone (osteopmyelitis), heart (endorcarditis), and blood (bacteremia and septicemia). The addition of this Identifier opens the door for the MIT 1000 Technology to enter the clinical pathogen detection and identification arena.
In July 2014, the Company announced that the MIT 1000 System can also identify Salmonella enterica serotype Choleraesuis. S. Choleraesuis is a non-typhoid strain that is a serious cause of foodborne infection. It also shows a higher predilection for causing bacteremia (bacteria in the blood) in humans by entering blood vessels through the stomach wall. The completion of this Identifier demonstrates the sensitivity of this non-biological bacterial identification technology. This new Identifier gives the MIT 1000 the ability to identify a serotype of the species Salmonella enterica . A serotype is a distinct variation within a species that has cell surface antigens that differ from other serotypes of the same species; that is a very small difference. Other Identifiers give the MIT 1000 the ability to identify Listeria genus and Staphylococcus genus where each genus consists of multiple species, some of which can be pathogenic.”
The Staph and Salmonella Identifiers are available now and the Company plans to submit them for AOAC certification as soon as possible.
