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Clinical Swabs
Colony Density & Colour Reference Chart
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Dip N Count® & Sanicult™
Histoplex™
Histoplex™ Tissue Cassettes
Mediplast™ - Pharmaceutical Containers                              
Multipurpose Containers
Multitrans™ System with Flocked Swab
Specimen Collection & Transport Vials
Specimen Collection for drug of abuse testing
Specimen Containers
StarTox™

Independent Studies

ASM 108th General Meeting, Boston, MA - June 2008
Assessment of Flocked Swabs for the Identification of Streptococcal Pharyngitis
D Goldfarb MD1,2, N Stewart MLT ART1, F Chan PhD1, RK Tam MD2, R Slinger MD1,2
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada
2Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

ASM 108th General Meeting, Boston, MA - June 2008
Evaluation of a Novel Swab Transport System for Maintaining Viability of Anaerobes and Impact of Using Different Inoculum Broths
Shaker E. Farhat1*, George Lim1, Rudylor Malonzo1, Bhavisha Shingala1, Andrew E. Simor1,2,3
1Alpha Laboratories Inc., Toronto, ON; 2Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON; 3University of Toronto, Toronto, ON,, Canada

24th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Florida – April 27 - April 30, 2008
Comparison of Nasopharyngeal (NP) Swabs Collected with Pernasal Flocked Swabs versus NP Swabs Collected with Traditional Twisted Wire Fiber Minitip for the Detection of Respiratory Viruses Using Simulfluor DFA
P. Ng1, J. Ng1 and T. Mazzulli1,2. 1Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, 2University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

24th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Florida – April 27 - April 30, 2008
Single Respiratory Collection System, Starplex S-160 NASO, for Multiple Investigations
R.WHEELER*, T. HAYES, D. HATHAWAY, D. JASKOT, J. KRAHN, S. MILBURN, A. TIROLESE, R. LANNIGAN
Virology Department, London Laboratory Services Group, London, Ontario, Canada

24th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, Florida – April 27 - April 30, 2008
The Seeplex® RV Detection Kit Identifies Pathogens in the Majority of Respiratory Outbreaks from the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
J.E. Blair1, L. Burton1, E. Lombos1, C. De Lima1, T. Mazzulli1,2,3, and S.J.Drews1,2,3
1. Central Public Health Laboratory, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2. Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3. Department of Pathobiology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ammi Canada - CACMID Annual Conference 2008, February 27 - March 1, 2008, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
Detection of MRSA by the BD Genome IDI MRSA Assay (BMA) from Flocked Swabs transported in Liquid Stuart’s
David Goldfarb3, Peter Jessamine1,2, Angela Bonneau1, Karam Ramotar1,2, Marc Desjardins1,2
The Ottawa Hospital1, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute2, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario3

International Conference of Emergency Medicine, San Francisco, California – April 3-6, 2008
Prevalence and Characterization of Community Acquired Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Colonization in High-Risk Individuals in Toronto, Canada
B. Borgundvaag PhD, MD1, T. Svoboda MD, PhD2, A. McGeer MD3, B. Willey BSc3,
A. Rostos BSc3 P. Gnanasuntharam BSc3, A. Tyler BSc3, V. Porter BSc3, N. Kreiswirth BSc3
1The Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, 2The Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michaels Hospital, 3Mount Sinai Hospital/University Health network Department of Microbiology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

ASM 107th General Meeting, Toronto, Ontario – May 2007
Evaluation of Two Amies Charcoal Transport Swabs: Impact of Reduced Charcoal on Gram Staining and Viability
M. Desjardins1,2,3, C. Seetaram2, K. Ramotar1,2,3
1The Ottawa Hospital, 2Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, 3University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

23rd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida – May 2007
 Comparison of the Starplex Flocked Swab or Dacron Swab for Epithelial Cell Recovery from Nasopharyngeal Samples in Healthy Volunteers
R. Wheeler*, D. Hathaway, T. Hayes, D. Jaskot, J. Krahn, A. Tirolese, and R. Lannigan
Virology Department, London Laboratory Services Group, London, Ontario, Canada

23rd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida – May 2007
 Comparison of the Standard Direct Fluorescent Antibody Testing and Viral Culture to ID-Tag™ RVP from Luminex® Molecular Diagnostics
D. Jaskot*, T. Hayes, D. Hathaway, J. Krahn, S. Milburn, A. Tirolese, R. Wheeler, and R. Lannigan
Virology Department, London Laboratory Services Group, London, Ontario, Canada

AMMI-CACMID, Halifax – March 2007
 Performance of Binax NOW® and ImmunoCard STAT!® Influenza Assays with Specimens Collected in Starplex Multitrans™ S160 Transport Medium
T.M. Karnauchow1,2, R. Milk1, and L. Sullivan1
1Regional Virology Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario; 2University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Oct. 2006, p. 3794-3796
 Verification of the IDI-MRSA Assay for Detecting Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Diverse Specimen Types in a Core Clinical Laboratory Setting
Steven J. Drews,1  Barbara M. Willey,2  Nathan Kreisworth,2  Min Wang,3  Teresa Ianes,3  Jayne Mitchell,3  Mary Latchford,3  Allison McGreer,1,2  and Kevin C. Katz1,3,4
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto,1  University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital,2 Department of Laboratory Medicine, North York General Hospital,3  and Infection Prevention and Control, North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada4

22nd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida - May 2006
Evaluation Of The Starplex Multitrans Media For Maintaining The Viability Of Clinical Samples
D. Hathaway, T. Hayes, D. Jaskot, J. Krahn, A. Tirolese, and R. Lannigan
Virology Department, London Laboratory Services Group, London, Ontario, Canada

CACMID 2005 Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario – April 2005
Determination of colonization of pregnant women at 35 to 37 weeks of gestation and at the time of delivery.
S.L. Burns, M. Myers, L. Norton, B.C. Catanzariti, L. Stoakes, R. Natale, M.A. John,
Z. Hussain
Department of Microbiology, London Health Sciences Centre, and Obstetrics and Gynecology St. Joseph’s Health Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

CACMID 2005 Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario – April 2005
Comparison of Starplex and Copan vaginal and rectal swabs for the detection of group B streptococci (GBS) in pregnant women.
M. Myers, Betty C. Catanzariti, Lisa Norton, S. Burn, L. Stoakes, R. Natale, M.A. John,
Z. Hussain
Department of Microbiology, London Health Sciences Centre, and Obstetrics and Gynecology St. Joseph’s Health Centre, London, Ontario, Canada

ASM 105th General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia - June 2005 
Evaluation of Organism Recovery after Twelve Months using the Roll Plate Method Described in CLSI Document M40: Quality Control of Microbiological Transport Devices
C.L. Brosnikoff, R.P. Rennie and L.C. Turnbull 
Medical Microbiological Laboratory, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

ASM 105th General Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia - June 2005 
Reproducibility of Swab Survival Studies Evaluated with the CLSI Method using Remel BactiSwab® and BBL™ CultureSwab™ Plus for Aerobic, Facultative and Obligate Anaerobic Bacteria
A. Bills, D. Lang, J. Verbonitz, and R.L. Sautter 
Pinnacle Health Laboratories, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA

21st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida - May 2005 
Use of the Starswab Multitrans Collection and Transport System for Detection of Chlamydia Trachomatis (CT) and Neisseria Gonorrhoeae (GC) with Aptima® Combo 2™, Aptima CT and Aptima GC Assays
J. Harrison, M. Garassi, S. Wierzbicki, and W. LeBar 
Hospital Consolidated Laboratories, Providence Hospital, Southfiled, Michigan, USA

21st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Clearwater Beach, Florida - May 2005 
The Evaluation of Starplex S160 Viral Transport Medium for Long Term Storage of Patient Specimens for Research and Development Activities in a Clinical Diagnostic Virology Laboratory
R. Wheeler, D. Hathaway, T. Hayes, D. Jaskot, J. Krahn, A. Tirolese, R. Lannigan
Virology Department, London Laboratory Services Group, London, Ontario, Canada

CACMID 2005 Annual Conference, Ottawa, Ontario - April 2005 
Validation of the Direct Plate Method Described in the NCCLS Document M40: Quality Control of Microbiological Transport Devices (FINAL)
C. Brosnikoff and R. Rennie 
Medical Microbiology Laboratory, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 

Studies Archive (1997-2004)

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