Clinical microbiology laboratories are under growing pressures to deliver rapid and high quality results, in an industry that is struggling to find and retain qualified staff.
Automation is the way forward. It’s become a vital element of modern diagnostic laboratories.
Why automation?
Automation has the potential to offer a greater level of consistency, traceability and reliability. All while reducing stress for employees by dealing with the high-volume repetitive work that makes up the majority of microbiologist time.
Key features of APAS Independence
Delivering stand-alone automation, the APAS Independence is a world-leading in-vitro diagnostic instrument for the automated imaging analysis and interpretation of agar culture plates.
High-throughput automation
Reads and sorts 200 culture plates per hour
Input capacity of 240 culture plates
Load plates and walk-away
Intelligent segregation of culture plates
Significant growth
Review
Non-significant growth
No-growth
Analysis modules addressing the greatest challenges for laboratories
Urine Screening for UTI
Infection Control testing for MRSA and VRE
Zone size reading for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
