The latest generation of BacT/ALERT Culture Media brings the most advanced, innovative microbial growth and detection technology to your laboratory. BacT/ALERT media provide unsurpassed performance, in the detection of a wide variety of microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, and yeasts.

Performance
With BacT/ALERT 3D, you can be confident that your laboratory is detecting as many septic episodes as possible and contributing to patient care. Count on BacT/ALERT's 15+ years of proven performance, detailed in over 200 publications.

BacT/ALERT 3D now provides state-of-the-art microbial detection for quality control testing of leukocyte reduced apheresis platelets.

Media Selection
The BacT/ALERT blood/body fluid media selection offer choices to meet the needs of varying patient populations. Choosing the right combination of media for your laboratory is an important decision.

Workflow
BacT/ALERT Culture Media improve the way your laboratory works while raising your standards for detection and recovery.

Easy Identification: Color-coded labels and peel-off bar codes simplify identification and data processing to reduce errors and facilitate user-directed loading.

Data Integrity: Since BacT/ALERT readings are not tied to the original location of the bottle, there are no limitations for returning bottles to the instrument. Upon reload, the operator loads the bottle in any available cell and the readings continue from where they left off. This ensures that data integrity is maintained during usual (and unusual) laboratory protocols.

Safety
Safety is an important consideration for any testing that involves patient samples. bioMérieux is committed to providing the safest products possible to the microbiology laboratory. Today's BacT/ALERT bottles are plastic to help your laboratory work safer than ever.

Specimen Collection

Collection of Specimens: Inoculation of the BacT/ALERT bottles can be accomplished in a variety of ways, all of which are compatible with safety engineered collection devices.

Needle-less Inoculation for Mycobacteria: Processed specimens can be added by needle and syringe or the bottle closure can be removed for inoculation with a pipette.