The latest 2005 Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI) M100 and M-44P (bacteria/yeast antibiotic disk test) guidelines are for the BIOMIC® vision system from Giles Scientific Inc. The company’s digital-image analysis enables clinicians to instantly read and interpret zone sizes, as well as determine accurate MICs from the standard disk test.
     Test and quality-control results are automatically checked by an advanced expert system based on CLSI guidelines. In rapid-batch-entry mode, as many as six plates per minute are read after the BIOMIC vision system automatically interprets the correct drug panel based on organism or LIS work lists. BIOMIC contains IDTree™ software based on CLSI-M35 (rapid final identification of bacteria and yeast) and provides rapid simple procedures to identify 80%–90% of isolates in minutes. IDTree contains explanations, test-result photos, and procedure-flow schemes.

Giles Scientific Inc
(800) 603-9290; www.biomic.com