PREVI^® Color Gram

Optimizing laboratory productivity and providing clinicians with faster and more standardized results for better patient care.

Why it’s important

• Gram staining is a critical and mandatory test performed in the microbiology laboratory.
• It is a preliminary step used to differentiate between gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
• The Gram stain is particularly useful in the presumptive diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, gonorrhea, and infections of the brain, lung, abdomen, and wounds.
• Traditional Gram staining is a fastidious and long procedure, requiring technical expertise, numerous manual steps and therefore lacking in reliability and reproducibility.

PREVI^® Color Gram

• bioMérieux developed a rapid, automated system for Gram staining that frees lab technicians’ time for more value-added tasks.
• PREVI Color Gram is used for the automated gram staining of sample slides containing microorganisms.
• Its innovative spray technology represents a breakthrough in the automation of microbiological analysis, enabling:
  
  • increased time-savings and standardization,
  • reliable results,
  • improved laboratory workflow,
  • substantial cost savings,
  • environmental protection: just enough reagent is used for the number of slides programmed and reagent waste is collected in a dedicated container.
• PREVI Color Gram is part of bioMérieux’s range of fully-automated solutions for microbiology laboratories, including WASP®  (Walk Away Specimen Processor) for the automated inoculation of culture media.