Large surface sampling for contamination control of critical environments

Traditional surface sampling methods provide notoriously poor results. Common surface sampling swabs limit users to very small areas and collection efficiency is often poor. Most swab kits are manufactured for culture-based analyses that require incubation for several hours or days and many pathogens of interest may be viable, although not culturable. Recovery of a surface sample from a swab for rapid molecular methods requires additional liquid for rinsing which often dilutes the target beyond the detection limit of the assay.
The InnovaPrep CP Select™ FluidPrep CP Sample Concentration System (concentrator pipette) rapidly concentrates microorganisms, achieving up to 10,000-fold concentration from liquid samples.
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