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Prepare a Liquid Colony™ in Minutes

Qvella’s mission is to improve patient outcomes and save lives through reducing time to actionable results in microbiology and infectious disease testing. The FAST™ System automated system is designed to isolate and concentrate viable bacterial cells directly from a positive blood culture, yielding a clean Liquid Colony™ in ~30 minutes.

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Evaluation of Qvella’s FAST PBC Prep Liquid Colony™ for Early Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing of Positive Blood Culture by Disk Diffusion Method

Khine AA, Fernandez N, Pandey L, Talebpour, A, Novak Weekley S, Alavie T

Objectives:

Compare the biomass from a Liquid Colony™ with the biomass in a positive blood culture

Compare the biomass in 0.5 McFarland derived from Liquid Colony™ with a 0.5 McFarland derived from a solid colony

Verify that a 0.5 McFarland suspension, from a Liquid Colony™ can be used as the inoculum for conventional DD testing (using CLSI M 100 interpretative criteria)

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Performance of Qvella’s FAST™ System for Early Microbial Detection and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Contrived Positive Blood Cultures

Khine AA, Samiei A, Fernandez N, Pandey L, Anwer N, Parmar V, Talebpour, A, Novak Weekley S, and Alavie T

Objectives:

Demonstrate comparability of biomass achieved in a Liquid Colony™ to an aliquot from a PBC

Demonstrate comparability between a Liquid Colony™ and solid colony with VITEK^® MS and VITEK^® 2 AST

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Webinars

Episode 5 – On Demand

The FAST System has the Potential to Expedite ID & AST for Bloodborne Pathogens from Positive Blood Cultures
David Pride, MD, PhD, Infectious Disease Specialist, UC San Diego Health

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Episode 4 – On Demand

Impact of reducing time to results in septic patient management
Dr. David Haake, Chief Medical Officer, Qvella

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Episode 3 – On Demand

Saving time in microbiological blood culture diagnostics
Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Dalpke (TU Dresden)

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Episode 2 – On Demand

Reduce time from PBC to actionable results by generating a Liquid Colony™
Herbert Torfs, PhD, V.P. of Business Development EMEA, Qvella and Professor Alexia Verroken, MD, PhD, Clinical Microbiologist, Saint-Luc University Hospital

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Episode 1 – On Demand

A New Paradigm in Positive Blood Culture Processing
Susan Novak-Weekley, PhD, D(ABMM), S(M) ASCP
Vice President of Medical Affairs, Qvella

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FAST System and FAST PBC Prep Cartridge have received CE marking for in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) use in Europe (as per EU IVDR 2017/746).

These devices have not been validated for any downstream diagnostic applications and are only indicated for positive blood culture specimens containing bacteria.

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