{"id":35012,"date":"2021-04-05T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/?p=35012"},"modified":"2022-10-31T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:08:18","slug":"culture-collections-fund-routine-laboratories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/culture-collections-fund-routine-laboratories\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture collections are fundamental to the analytical routine of laboratories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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To facilitate the access of laboratories to the reference strains, Controllab makes available to Brazil and Latin America the most renowned collection of cultures in Europe: NCTC<\/em><\/p>

In the routine of the analysis laboratories, the reference strains are fundamental for the quality control of the inputs used in the clinical and veterinary diagnostic exams, in the microbiological analysis of food, water, pharmaceutical products and the environment. They are also of great importance for carrying out studies to validate analytical methods and determine measurement uncertainty.<\/p>

In its continuous search to provide the best solutions in laboratory quality control,\u00a0Controllab<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has partnered with\u00a0UKHSA – UK Health Security Agency<\/a><\/strong>. This initiative made it possible for Brazil and other Latin American countries to have\u00a0immediate access to the oldest bacterial<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0collection<\/strong>\u00a0in the world –\u00a0NCTC (National Collection of Type Cultures)<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0– founded in 1920.<\/p>

There are more than 60 certified strains available for prompt delivery and in the quantity defined by the laboratory. They help laboratories to comply with NBR ISO\/IEC 17025 requirements regarding the quality control of results.<\/p>

Strains are used in the main validations: test for detection of microorganisms, alternative methods, new equipment, microbiological inputs (culture media), etc. They give more confidence and credibility to quality control, facilitating the process of meeting standards, laws, audits, accreditations and inspections.<\/p>

Having access to lyophilized and certified strains, optimizes maintenance resources in the laboratory. With them, the laboratory only reconstitutes the inoculum, performs the sowing and incubation.<\/p>

\u201cMost analysis laboratories in Brazil do not have a freezer at -70 \u00b0 C, which is necessary for the maintenance of reference strains for an extended period of time. In particular, nutritionally demanding microorganisms such as\u00a0Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Campylobacter<\/em>\u00a0do not survive freezing at -20 \u00b0 C. In addition, the successive repetition of reference strains can result in the alteration or loss of their characteristics due to the occurrence of mutations \u201d, comments Jorge Sampaio, professor of Clinical Microbiology at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and physician responsible for the Sector Microbiology of Fleury Medicina Diagn\u00f3stica.<\/p>

Being\u00a0PHE<\/strong>\u00a0licensed is another recognition of\u00a0Controllab<\/em>‘s technical competence, since this process validates the representative’s technical and structural capacity to reproduce with the same quality as the licensing brand.<\/p>

The benefit of the initiative reaches, in addition to Brazil, countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.\u00a0Access the Controllab website<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and learn more about the strains available at the\u00a0MRC Referential Qualitative Cultures<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and at the\u00a0STRAINS CONTROL Program<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0which allow the laboratory more time to dedicate itself to exam analysis with a more practical quality control and with reduced use of resources of the infrastructure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tControl Strain of Controllab was recognized as Certified Reference Material\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To facilitate the access of laboratories to the reference strains, Controllab makes available to Brazil and Latin America the most renowned collection of cultures in Europe:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,507,503],"tags":[658,669,849,846,847,848],"class_list":["post-35012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cepas-controle","category-material-de-referencia-certificado","category-noticias","tag-controllab","tag-controllab-en","tag-crm","tag-nctc-en","tag-phe-en","tag-strains-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170244,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions\/170244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/controllab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}