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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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BACT/ALERT Culture Media

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

Our next generation Fastidious Antimicrobial Neutralization Plus media (FAN® PLUS) offers optimized time to detection and recovery. FAN® PLUS bottles provide even clearer Gram stains and new Adsorbent Polymeric Beads offer antimicrobial neutralization.

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

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