In July, federal health officials warned hospitals that there would be a critical shortage of blood culture bottles that will stretch into September. Blood culture bottles are key in diagnosing ...

There are two other manufacturers of blood culture systems (bioMerieux's BacT/ALERT and Thermo Fisher's SIGNAL systems) that are unaffected, but their bottles can't be used in the Bactec system ...

BioMerieux produces 100 million blood culture bottles a year, about half the world’s vials used by hospitals and labs to detect patients’ blood samples for bacterial infections. Takaaki Iwabu ...

Medical device company Becton Dickinson (BD) may be nearing the end of a shortage of plastic bottles used to contain blood ...

(The bottles are used for blood culture media.) 32 customer complaints regarding BacT/ALERT blood culture media that produced false positives. The FDA says the company didn't try to fix the ...

The study cited previously leveraged BACT/ALERT WORKSAFE™ blood culture collection kits from bioMérieux, which include blood culture bottles as well as tools ... visit their website or contact ...

It aims to reduce blood platelet shortages and deaths from contaminated blood. The culture bottles are designed to be used with its fully automated blood system, which uses a microbial detection ...

Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections.

Some of the key players involved in the Market are: Autobio Diagnostics Co., Ltd, Becton, Dickinson and company (BD), bioMerieux ... Blood culture systems, automated blood culture systems, and ...