BACT/ALERT® Culture Media Bottles
Innovative & Optimized Culture Media
BACT/ALERT® culture media offers a comprehensive range of media bottles to ensure the recovery of a wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi – including our next generation Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization Plus media (FAN® PLUS) offering optimized time to detection and recovery.
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Overview
Flexible Media Delivers Reliable Recovery
BACT/ALERT® Culture Media provide an optimal environment for microbial growth, enabling detection and recovery of a wide range of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and mycobacteria. Flexible media recovers organisms from many sample types from blood to sterile body fluids.
BACT/ALERT® Culture Media offer:
- Enhanced performance: optimal growth for fast and accurate results
- Prioritize safety & risk reduction: shatterproof plastic bottles
- Two bottle types: streamlined workflow with only two bottle types (aerobic and anaerobic) needed for microorganism detection in blood infections
- 24-hour delayed entry: flexible bottle management & transport
- Colorimetric technology: a visual growth indicator with a noticeable & permanent color change, for more predictable & stable results
- Fill-to marks: guide optimal blood volume collection
FAN® PLUS Media: Optimized Time to Detection and Recovery
Optimized Microorganism Recovery
- Reformulated media provide a robust environment that encourages microbial growth for bacteria and yeasts
- Effective organism growth in blood and sterile body fluids
- Growth performance guidelines under delayed entry conditions
Optimized Time to Detection
- Effective antimicrobial neutralization provides better environment for organism growth and detection