RABIT

Rapid Automated Bacterial Impedance Technique

RABIT has been developed by Don Whitley Scientific over several years with the aid of leading product and computer design consultants. As part of company philosophy RABIT will be subject to continual development ensuring utilisation of latest technology and compatibility with emerging applications. Impedance microbiology is now a well established rapid method for both quantitative and qualitative studies with bacteria, yeasts and moulds. Unlike the standard plate methods which only measure microbial activity at a single point in time, RABIT monitors real time activity and thereby produces two significant benefits. Results are determined in a significantly shorter time frame compared to conventional microbiology. Information not normally produced using standard methodology is made available thereby improving our understanding of microbial activity in the test system.

The basic RABIT system consists of a PC, additional data logging board, standard QWERTY keyboard, mouse, high resolution colour monitor, laser printer and an incubator module. Up to 32 re-usable cells can be incubated in a single module and the system can be expanded up to a total of 16 modules to give a capacity of 512 individual tests. This enables laboratory staff to start with a relatively low cost system and expand it as their workload increases.

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