WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BioTrove, Inc. today announced that scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease (CCID) will use the BioTrove OpenArray™ technology platform to identify bacterial strains in tainted food, beginning with E. coli and Salmonella and soon others, such as botulism. Though not an endorsement of the product, the agency’s purchase of its new OpenArray NT Cycler follows a successful collaboration around the 2006 spinach-based E. coli outbreak, in which CDC scientists employed OpenArray SNP Genotyping technology to discriminate the outbreak source and compare the results with current gel-based analyses.
