Scan 500 is an inhibition zone reader. It has been designed for the pharmaceutical industries, medical research and animal health. Scan 500 also counts colonies on Petri dishes.
Fast: up to 7 inhibition zones in 1 click
Protocols: wells, peni-cylinders, paper disks
Interpretation systems: EUCAST, CA-SFM, CLSI and customizable
Automatic colony counting
Quick results
Scan 500 reads up to 7 antibiotics on a Petri dish in just one clic.
The result is categorized SIR:
Green: susceptible
Yellow: intermediate
Red: resistant
Example: Paper discs on Mueller Hinton before/after reading
Detection on all dishes
Scan 500 automatically detects the peni-cylinders, present or removed, made of steel or plastic. It also reads agar wells or paper disks (any brand). Add/remove disks manually. The inhibition zones can also be resized. Scan 500 allows reading on blood, chocolate or Mueller Hinton agar. In colony counter mode, it counts on round Petri dishes.
21 CFR Part 11 included
The Scan software complies with FDA recommendations, particularly on audit trail and security of results.
The user account management, integrated in the software, allows the creation of up to 5 levels of rights. The Supervisor-Administrator has all the roles while the other roles are subject to certain rights. Password management secures user accounts.
Printed results
All data, images, photos and results are exportable in printed reports, sca, pdf, jpg, xls, csv
Integrated databases
The Scan software is equipped with a database of antibiotics from the French Society of Microbiology (CA-SFM 2020)the European Committee of Antibiograms (EUCAST 2020), the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI).