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Selectrol® Qualitative Micro-organisms

Selectrol^® is a fully traceable and cost effective range of first generation Quality control micro-organisms which have predictable biochemical reactions, making it ideal for a variety of quality control and testing applications.

Quality control of culture media, staining reactions, biochemical profiling.
Determination of antibiotic concentrations in blood, serum or CSF samples.
Antibiotic susceptibility testing controls, whether by disc diffusion or serial dilution.

Selectrol^® Micro-organisms

Selectrol^® is a first generation derivative of original stock cultures obtained exclusively from the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC^®) or National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi (NCPF^®). Where appropriate other international strain designations, such as the ATCC^®, are listed for reference purposes only.

Selectrol^® strains are presented as water-soluble freeze-dried discs with most strains being available in packs of 10 or 25 discs. Selectrol^® is versatile, and can be inoculated directly onto solid media or dissolved in an appropriate broth.

Certificates of Analysis are available to download from our website: tcsbiosciences.co.uk.

To ensure you have the most recent Selectrol^® listing, please contact our Customer Service team.

Selectrol^® discs are manufactured under license from UK Health Security Agency.

NCTC^® and NCPF^® are trademarks of UK Health Security Agency.
ATCC^® strains are listed for reference only.
ATCC^® is a registered trademark of the American Type Culture Collection.

Selectrol^® Disc Quality Control Testing

Our in-house Selectrol^® laboratory is UKAS (United Kingdom Accreditation Service) accredited for the quality control testing of Selectrol^® (UKAS accredited testing laboratory No. 2496). Please refer to our schedule on the UKAS website.

Quality control testing of Selectrol^® includes biochemical profiling to demonstrate that the characteristics of the final product are identical to those of the source strain. A Test Report for each batch of Selectrol^® can be accessed via this link: Selectrol^® Certificates.