Wellcolex™ Color Shigella Kit

Description

• Provide a simple, rapid qualitative procedure for detection and species identification of Shigella spp
• present on solid culture media with Thermo Scientific™ Remel™ Wellcolex™ Color Shigella
• Shigella strains are classified into four species, Shigella boydii, Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei
• The classification may be achieved by serological tests on the basis of cell-associated O‑antigens, according to which the species may be further subdivided into serological types
• Wellcolex Colour Shigella Kit provides a rapid simple serological procedure for species identification of the majority of Shigella serotypes encountered in clinical bacteriology
• Use this rapid agglutination test for detection and identification of Shigella spp
• from culture media
• Identifies major groups of Shigella serotypes encountered in clinical bacteriology
• Utilizes advanced color technology for clear, easy-to-read species and/or serogroup identification Provides accurate, reliable results in two minutes In Wellcolex Colour Shigella Kit, a suspension of bacteria is reacted with two test reagents, each consisting of a mixture of red and blue latex particles
• Each colored latex is coated with antibody specific for a different Shigella species
• In the presence of homologous antigen one of the colours in a mixture will agglutinate, and the identity of the antigen is indicated by the colour of the aggregated particles with a contrasting change in the colour of the background
• Each combination is easily distinguished from the others and from a negative result in which the particles remain in smooth purple suspension.