November 2020—Alpha-Tec Systems has released quality control slides containing smears of red blood cells infected with a mixture of ring-form, trophozoite, and schizont stages of Plasmodium falciparum. The slides are prefixed with methanol and are ready to stain with traditional Giemsa, Wright’s, or Field stains.
Read More »Alpha-Tec launches SARS-CoV-2, HPV controls
August 2020—Alpha-Tec Systems has partnered with Microbix to provide whole-genome molecular REDx control products for SARS-CoV-2 and human papillomavirus to qualify and validate the elution, extraction, amplification, and detection steps of nucleic acid testing workflows.
Read More »Alpha-Tec launches SARS-CoV-2, HPV controls
July 31, 2020—Alpha-Tec Systems has partnered with Microbix to provide whole-genome molecular REDx control products
Read More »Stain QC slides, 2/15
February 2014—Alpha-Tec Systems’ Stain Quality Control Slides are designed to ensure the quality, accuracy, and reliability of stain reagents and staining procedures. The slides provide a known positive and negative control that the laboratory can use to limit the batch-to-batch differences in staining procedures and standardize diagnostic criteria.
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Used in conjunction with Alpha-Tec Systems’ NAC-PAC (N-acetylcysteinepackage ) line of digestion/ decontamination, buffering, and resuspension reagents, Alpha-Tec’s five percent oxalic acid is recommended to optimize decontamination conditions of specimens with P. aeruginosa.
Read More »Mycobacterium specimen preparation reagent system, 3/13:74
Alpha-Tec Systems’ NAC-PAC (Nacetylcysteine-package) EA3 offers a complete specimen preparation reagent system to digest, buffer, and resuspend patient samples for lab analysis of Mycobacterium spp. The reagents in NAC-PAC EA3 improve the efficiency of acid-fast bacilli diagnostics and reduce the need to reprocess samples by controlling pH throughout the entire specimen preparation procedure with an integrated pH indicator to ensure a neutral patient sample is achieved.
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