GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--At the 4th Congress of European Microbiologists (Federation of European Microbiological Societies, or FEMS) meeting in Geneva, Bruker announces a collaboration with the Institute of Medical Microbiology (IMM) at the University of Zurich (www.imm.uzh.ch). The IMM is using Bruker´s MALDI Biotyper system as their next-generation, rapid microbial identification system. The Institute of Medical Microbiology is the Swiss national reference centre for mycobacteria and its strain collections of coryneform bacteria, actinomycetes and fastidious gram negative bacteria and moulds are acknowledged worldwide. The IMM is faced with the characterization and identification of challenging microorganisms on a daily base. Therefore, the IMM has developed their own algorithms and workflows for identification and antibiotics susceptibility testing (AST). Their AST approaches are mainly based on Kirby-Bauer testing methods, which are now applied in combination with MALDI-TOF based identification technology.
