Product
Colibrí™
Colibrì™ is Copan’s device designed to automatise colony picking, and preparation of targets for ID through MALDI-TOF technology, and bacterial suspensions for AST.
Product
Radian®
Radian® is the WASPLab® module dedicated to the full automation and interpretation of Disk Diffusion Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing.
Scientific Study
Rapid identification by MALDI-TOF/MS and antimicrobial disk diffusion susceptibility testing for positive blood cultures after a short incubation on the WASPLab®
Abdessalam Cherkaoui & Gesuele Renzi & Nouria Azam & Didier Schorderet & Nicolas Vuilleumier
& Jacques Schrenzel
Scientific Study
Impact of the introduction of WASPLab® on the reporting time of blood cultures
Bea Van Den Poel, Adrian Klak, Marc Van Ranst, Melissa Depypere, Ann Verdonck, Karlien Vanhouteghem,
Katrien Lagrou, Stefanie Desmet
学術研究
Comparison of WASP® and WASPLab® and InoqulA™ for Primary Specimens Streaking Quality
Marion Jetter, Martina Marchesi, Michael Hombach, Peter M. Keller
Scientific Study
Disc diffusion AST automation: one of the last pieces missing for full microbiology laboratory automation
O. Dauwalder, F. Vandenesch
Scientific Study
Tentative breakpoints and areas of technical uncertainty for early reading automated disc diffusion for Enterobacterales
Stefano Mancini, Kim Röthlin, Elias Bodendoerfer, Sebastian Herren, Natalia Kolesnik-Goldmann,
Patrice Courvalin, Reinhard Zbinden and Erik C. Böttger
Scientific Study
Walk Away Automated Disc Diffusion Susceptibility Testing by Copan WASPLab®
J. van der Linden, A.R. Jansz, T. Liebregts, J. Stalpers, N.L.A. Arents, L.B.J. van der Velden
Scientific study
Automated colony picking and McFarland preparation using the Copan Colibrì instrument is equivalent to manual McFarland preparations for antimicrobial susceptibility testing using the Vitek 2 system
K. Bryant et al.
Copan White Paper
Validation of Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing directly from blood cultures using WASPLab ®, including Colibrí™ and Radian ® in‑Line Carousel
Pauline Hilda Herroelen et al.
News
Meet Radian® BC
Radian® BC is our latest solution to drastically reduce the time to diagnosis in Blood Stream Infection patients. By cutting to 4 hours the incubation time for positive blood culture samples, Radian BC guarantees to specialists unparalleled fast diagnostic assessment, directing each patient towards an early targeted antimicrobial therapy. line laboratory workflow in COVID-19 screening.
Microbiology Time
Microbiology Time – October 2022
October Microbiology Time is here, and we just updated our scientific database with great papers! Our monthly research highlights include a study on SARS-CoV-2 and saliva self-collection, a cost-benefit analysis of 4N6FLOQSwabs, and an outstanding paper analyzing the benefits of fully automated Rapid AST for blood cultures. Read the studies and enjoy!
Article Focus
Fully Automated EUCAST Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (RAST) from Positive Blood Cultures: Diagnostic Accuracy and Implementation
Even though we’ve already covered this study in our October Microbiology Time, this latest piece of evidence on the importance of Automated RAST in helping patients get prompt treatment indications surely deserves additional attention. Discover the study details and read the full Open access article!
News
Radian® RAST: Pushing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing at full speed
After launching Radian’s fully automated disk-diffusion Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing and offering Rapid AST for positive blood cultures, we are now ready to bring RAST advantages to other types of samples.
Video
Radian™ – Automated Disk Diffusion Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Radian® is the WASPLab® module dedicated to the full automation and interpretation of Disk Diffusion Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing.
Video
Radian® BC
Radian BC guarantees to specialists unparalleled fast diagnostic assessment, directing each patient towards an early targeted antimicrobial therapy.
Symposium
Automated Disk Diffusion AST: the next step in full laboratory automation
Copan Diagnostics Scientific Director Susan Sharp attended last NSCMID meeting to talk about Radian, our automated disk diffusion system for laboratory AST. Listen to Susan at the link below, and discover how Radian brings Disk Diffusion AST back to the future!
Symposium
BacteriologIA: Artificial Intelligence applied to bacteriology
Copan sponsored Integrated Lunch Symposia – ECCMID 2023
The introduction of lab automation, digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence will play a key role in supporting microbiologists in managing the multiple challenges they face daily. The experiences of clinical laboratories that re-shaped their workflows thanks to the adoption of new technologies will be discussed in this symposium and will surely be inspiring.
