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H a r d y D i a g n o s t i c s N e w s l e t t e r
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"A culture of service..."
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Hardy's
Micro~Bytes
March 2009
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Charismatic Bacteria
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Urea/PDA Disks
Hardy's Rapid Urea/PDA Disks will help you to quickly rule out harmless non-lactose fermentors when screening stool specimens for Salmonella and Shigella.
This test is useful in differentiating Proteus, Providencia, and Morganella species from most other members of the Enterobacteriaceae. HardyDisk™ Urea/PDA Disks are used to determine an organism's ability to hydrolyze urea to ammonia, and to deaminate phenylalanine to phenylpyruvic acid.
This is a rapid two hour test that is useful in screening out lactose negative stool flora (on MacConkey, HE, XLD, or EMB) that is not pathogenic (Proteus, Providentia, Morganella) from true pathogens (Shigella or Salmonella). This rapid and inexpensive test prevents the waste of expensive Vitek cards and other ID systems.
Click here
for information on Rapid Urea/PDA Disks
Click here
to request a free sample.
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Sale Price!
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This "gold standard" text of the most useful reference books ever written for clinical microbiology. An absolute "must have" for every laboratory. Written by the leading experts in the field: E. Koneman, P. Schreckenberger, W. Janda, W. Winn, S. Allen, G. Procop, and G. Woods. Over 1,600 pages packed with clearly written information, charts, and color photos.
For the month of April, as an authorized distributor for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Hardy is offering this book "at cost" in order to promote education in microbiology. You'll never find it priced lower than this!
Hardy's Sale Price: $67.16
List Price: $95.95 (Amazon: $79.96)
Mention "Micro~Bytes" when ordering to receive your special price. Just call (800) 266-2222 and order cat. no. 730147.
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Here's an exhausting workout for your mind.
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Want to review past issues of Micro~Bytes?
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Think about it....
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If a black box in a plane is indestructible, why can't they make the whole plane out of it?
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Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
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Why is it so hard to remember how to spell 'mnemonic'?
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If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
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Infamous Quotes
They wish you would forget...
"Sensible and responsible women do not want to
vote."
1905, Grover Cleveland, the 24th President of the US.
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Which Nobel Prize winner drank a bacterial cocktail just to prove a point?
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Seeing is Believing?
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Something looks wrong here...
or is it just me. Or is it you?
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"Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear"
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HardyCHROM MRSA CP
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For the control of MRSA
on environmental surfaces.
Hardy's new chromogenic contact plate is used to monitor surfaces for MRSA. Simply press the media to the surface to be tested. Helpful in monitoring surfaces for effective infection control in order to limit patient exposure to MRSA. Results in 16 to 24 hours.
HardyCHROM MRSA CP is highly selective for Methicillin resistance
Staphylococcus aureus.
The colonies will turn mauve in color as pictured above.
Click here
for a brochure to find out more.
Click here
for the technical insert.
Click here
to request free samples.
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Louis Pasteur
1822-1895
French microbiologist most noted for his proof of the germ theory of disease, control of puerperal (childbed) fever, rabies vaccination, and, of course, the Pasteurization of beverages.
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"Chance favors only the prepared mind."
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to
humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world".
"...That nation will remain the first, which carries the furthest
the works of thought and intelligence."
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My
strength lies solely in my tenacity."
"Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit.
Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions."
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You can find more of Leigh Rubin's cartoon humor by
clicking here
for a daily Rubes cartoon.
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Signs of our times....
Maybe you
can
get blood out of turnip.
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Was John Adams a Prophet?
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America
arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want
of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of
coin, credit and circulation."
~ John Adams, the Second President the US, 1797-1801
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