Abstract:
An elongate canister (18) having a generally rectangular cross-section sized to house a plurality of antibiotic susceptibilty test arrays (12) stacked one atop another and maintained secure within an environmentaly controlled inventory chamber (22) in a random access microbiological analyzer (10).
Abstract:
A cup-like broth container (242) comprising four mutually opposed pairs of connected sidewalls (250) with a protruding rib (248) formed on each of four perpendicularly opposed single sidewalls and four Y-shaped clamping ridges (252) attached to and extending outwardly from a single one of the four sidewalls located between the four sidewalls having a protruding rib.
Abstract:
A microbiological test array (12) with a generally flat base (11) having a plurality of upwardly projecting microwells (44) connected by a microchannel (42) to an open reservoir (50) formed in a top surface (13) generally parall el to the base (11) of the test array (12). The reservoir (50) has an opening t o permit an inoculum-broth liquid solution to flow from the reservoir through the microchannel (51), to a sacrificial evaporation well (46) having an air vent port (48) adapted to control a vacuum filling process, and subsequently to be distributed into each of the plurality of microwells (44).