Thermo Scientific™ Catarrhalis Test Disk

Description

• Detect butyrate esterase to rapidly identify Moraxella catarrhalis isolated from clinical specimens with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Catarrhalis Test Disk
• The rapid identification of Moraxella catarrhalis is important, since most strains produce beta-lactamase and are resistant to penicillin and ampicillin
• Conventional methods used to identify M
• catarrhalis may take up to 48 hours to perform 3,4
• In 1962, Berger suggested that detection of butyrate esterase can be used as a rapid method to identify M
• catarrhalis
• 1 Detect butyrate esterase to presumptively identify Moraxella catarrhalis using the reagent-impregnated Catarrhalis Test Disk
• Moraxella catarrhalis is an important pathogen
• Yeun et al
• have reported that the isolation of M
• catarrhalis from routine sputum cultures is associated with clinical infection
• 2 Rapid identification of this organism is important, since most strains produce beta-lactamase and are resistant to penicillin and ampicillin
• Ready to use : Reagent-impregnated disk
• No further preparation required
• Easy to detect : Visual detection of color change
• Easy to interpret : Positive test- blue-green color development within 2 minutes Negetive test- no color development within 2 minutes
• Catarrhalis Test Disk is impregnated with indoxyl butyrate as the reactive ingredient
• The enzyme butyrate esterase releases indoxyl from indoxyl butyrate and spontaneously forms indigo in the presence of oxygen 5
• This color change allows rapid detection of M
• catarrhalis
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