GOETTINGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 21, 2009--
At the 61st Annual Meeting of the German
Society for Hygiene and Microbiology on September 20-23, 2009 in
Goettingen, Bruker Daltonics announces that three major German private
clinical microbiology laboratories have extended their accreditation
according to DIN EN ISO 15189 to include the use of Bruker’s MALDI
Biotyper molecular identification solution.
The DIN EN ISO 15189 norm defines the quality management, includes
corrective actions, documentation, internal audits, qualification of
staff, pre-analytical measures and ensures the quality of the analytical
techniques that are used in today’s modern laboratories. The existing
laboratory accreditations have been extended to include the MALDI
Biotyper at Labor Boogen (Cologne), MVZ für Mikrobiologie,
Labordiagnostik und Hygiene (Dessau) and MVZ
Labor Prof. Seelig (Karlsruhe).
This DIN EN ISO 15189 accreditation is certified by the Deutsche
Akkreditierungsstelle Chemie (DACH) GmbH, an agency in charge of
accreditations and surveillance of laboratories working in the fields of
chemistry, biology and medicine. The extended accreditation demonstrates
the expertise and professional competence of the respective laboratories
to utilize the MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for their microbial
identification workflow.
Dr.
Ulrich Weller
, Head of Microbiology at Labor Boogen (Cologne) said:
“Our laboratory has been one of the pioneers in using the MALDI
Biotyper for fast microbial identification based on molecular
protein fingerprinting. With the current accreditation we have now also
official approval of the identification quality based on this exciting
technology.”
Dr.
Juliane Böttcher-Lorenz
, Head of MVZ für Mikrobiologie,
Labordiagnostik und Hygiene Dessau GmbH, further commented: “We are
pleased to see that the MALDI Biotyper which was an
exciting but untypical technology two years ago is now becoming
mainstream and this is also reflected in the growing number of routine
laboratories which received accreditation for the MALDI Biotyper.”
Dr.
Andrea Koch
, Head of Microbiology at Labor Prof. Seelig (Karlsruhe)
concluded: “We are using the MALDI Biotyper since more
than a year for our complete microbial identification work. For this
reason it was only consequent to include this technology in our set of
accredited technologies.”
About the Bruker MALDI Biotyper
Bruker’s dedicated MALDI Biotyper solution enables
molecular identification, 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 processing and quality control, as well as marine
microbiology. Bruker’s robust MALDI Biotyper method
requires minimal sample preparation efforts and offers low consumables
cost per sample. The MALDI Biotyper is available in a
research-use-only version, as well as in an IVD-CE version according to
EU directive EC/98/79 in certain European countries. For more
information, please visit www.bdal.com/maldibiotyper.
ABOUT BRUKER DALTONICS
For more information about Bruker Daltonics and Bruker Corporation
(NASDAQ: BRKR), please visit www.bdal.com
and www.bruker.com.
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For Further Information:
Karin Hoffmann
MALDI Biotyper
Marketing, Bruker Daltonics
Tel: +49-421-2205-2041
kho@bdal.de