Features

• CatScreen™, rapid test for Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis (M. cat.)using butyrate esterase
• Performs a butyrate test within 5 minutes
• Simply moisten disk, inoculate with organism, then wait for the development of a red color
• The Hardy Diagnostics manufacturing facility and quality management system comply with the FDA's Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and have achieved ISO 13485 certification as a medical device manufacturer
• Disks impregnated with bromo-chloro-indolyl butyrate serve as the substrate for the detection of butyrate esterase
• Hydrolysis of the substrate by the butyrate esterase yields a chromogenic compound which appears blue to blue-green in color