Spiral公司推出细菌菌落计数系统

一种菌落计数系统能够进行有色细菌菌落快速检测，而无须购置颜色区别计数系统。

这种ColorQCount系统整合了高清晰度数字电荷耦联（CCD）相机以及先进的软件系统来鉴别哪怕是最难计数的系统，例如肺炎链球菌和李斯特菌株。这套设备的其它特征包括新型照明配置确保均匀一致的照明、菌落对比增强功能、获得保护的图象分析功能（通过检测菌落或者群落的细小迁移来实现此功能）。

Autothresholding软件自动确定琼脂背景颜色阈值，同时编辑功能在数据库中储存每个培养皿的图象用于打印或者再分析。ColorQCount是Spiral生物科技公司的产品，是高级设备公司的分支机构。

Spiral生物科技公司产品经理Anthony Pappas指出：“这种高效、高通量设备十分适合在食品检测实验室中用于检测大肠杆菌和李斯特菌，在药理学实验室检测血琼脂中的肺炎链球菌。全部培养皿分析时间少于1秒钟，包括菌落群落重叠计数，一个实验室每个小时能够很容易的处理与计数400个培养皿。”
 
Color Bacterial Colony Counter
 
A colony-counter system provides rapid, color bacterial colony screening without the cost of purchasing color-differentiated counting systems.

The Color QCount unit incorporates a high-resolution, digital charged-coupled device (CCD) camera and advanced software to identify and colorize even the most-difficult bacterial strains to count, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Listeria species. Other instrument features include innovative lighting configuration that assures uniform illumination and enhanced colony contrast, and patented advanced image analysis that detects colonies by examining subtle shifts in colony or cluster tone.

Autothresholding software automatically determines the threshold of agar background color, while editing capability saves each plate image in a database for printing or re-analysis. Color QCount is the product of Spiral Biotech (Norwood, MA, USA), a subsidiary of Advanced Instruments, Inc.

“This high-performance, high-throughput instrument is ideally suited for food-testing laboratories counting Escherichia coli and Listeria, and for pharmaceutical labs detecting Strep pneumo on blood agar,” noted Anthony Pappas, product manager, Spiral Biotech. ‘With total plate analysis time, including overlapping colony clusters, of less than one second, a laboratory can easily process and count up to 400 plates per hour.”