BD FACSMicroCount
Features
How the system works
The BD FACSMicroCount™ system handles up to 20 samples per hour for qualitative analysis (presence/absence) and up to 15 samples per hour for quantitative analysis (enumeration). Unlike other systems, the BD FACSMicroCount can count live or dead cells, which can be valuable in fermentation applications.
Automation Delivers Rapid and Consistent Results
The BD FACSMicroCount software creates an electronic record of each sample, identifying it by date and end time. Data can be evaluated for individual samples or compared to other data sets. Results can be viewed in graphical or tabular data displays to speed analysis. Graphical displays include intensity, fluorescence, side scatter, and counts vs. time. Data analysis can be performed while the instrument is running new samples.
Hydrodynamic Focusing of the Sample Core through the Flow Cell
Hydrodynamic focusing guides the microbes in a single-file stream to intercept the laser beam. Once the microbes pass through the laser beam, the optics system collects fluorescence and side scatter information and the data is displayed in real time as an intensity plot or counts/mL.
Types of Microorganisms
- Gram-positive bacteria
- Gram-negative bacteria
- Mycoplasmas
- Spirochetes
- Anaerobes
- Spores – bacterial and mold
- Parasite cysts
- Filamentous bacteria, yeasts, and mold
Microorganisms Enumerated
- Aeromonas caviae
- Aeromonas hydrophila
- Aspergillus niger spores
- Bacillus atrophaeus
- Bacillus atrophaeus spores
- Bacillus pumilus
- Bacillus pumilus spores
- Bacillus subtilis
- Bacillus subtilis spores
- Bordetella bronchiseptica
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae
- Burkholderia cepacia
- Campylobacter jejuni
- Candida albicans
- Candida glabrata
- Citrobacter freundii
- Clostridium perfringens
- Cryptococcus spp.
- Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts
- Enterobacter aerogenes
- Enterobacter cloacae
- Enterococcus casseliflavus
- Enterococcus durans
- Enterococcus faecium
- Enterococcus faecalis
- Enterococcus gallinarum
- Enterococcus hirae
- Enterococcus mundtii
- Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli O157:H7
- Escherichia coli O25:HN
- Escherichia coli O15:NM
- Escherichia coli O1:NM
- Escherichia coli O7:NM
- Escherichia coli O78:NM
- Escherichia coli ON:H8
- Escherichia coli ON:NM
- Escherichia coli O8:HN
- Geobacillus stearothermophilus
- Geobacillus stearothermophilus
spores - Giardia lamblia cysts
- Haemophilus parasuis
- Haemophilus somnus
- Halobacterium salinarum
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Lactobacillus acidophilus
- Lactobacillus casei
- Lactobacillus delbrueckii
- Lactobacillus lindneri
- Lactobacillus plantarum
- Lactococcus lactis
- Lawsonia intracellularis
- Leptospira pomona
- Listeria grayi
- Listeria innocua
- Listeria ivanovii
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Listeria seeligeri
- Listeria welshimeri
- Micrococcus candicans
- Micrococcus luteus
- Moraxella bovis
- Mycoplasma bovis
- Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
- Nannocystis exedens
- Oxalobacter formigenes
- Pantoea agglomerans
- Pasteurella multocida
- Pediococcus acidilactici
- Pediococcus damnosus
- Proteus mirabilis
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Pseudomonas fluorescens
- Pseudomonas putida
- Ralstonia pickettii
- Raoutella terrigena
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Salmonella adelaide
- Salmonella anatum
- Salmonella choleraesuis
- Salmonella dublin
- Salmonella enteriditis
- Salmonella hadar
- Salmonella heidelberg
- Salmonella iverness
- Salmonella schalwijk
- Salmonella typhimurium
- Salmonella worthington
- Serratia marcescens
- Shigella boydii
- Staphylococcus aureus
- Staphylococcus epidermidis
- Staphylococcus saprophyticus
- Stenotrophomonas maltophila
- Streptococcus bovis
- Streptococcus equinus
- Streptococcus pyogenes
- Tsukamurella paurometabola
