The Solution:
BioSherpa™ Specimen Transport System
BioSherpa™ STS is a unique combination that disrupts an organism’s biofilm protective matrix, encouraging bacteria to grow and be evaluated in its planktonic state.
The patented BioSherpa™ Specimen Transport System(STS) dramatically increases the chance that a culture will identify a causative pathogen, even when the patient is on antibiotics that traditionally sterilize the sample.
BioSherpa™ STS is a game changer.
Through the use of BioSherpa™ STS, we can isolate pathogens that typically die or hide in the mass of commensal organisms.
Here we see an example of how BioSherpa™ STS can facilitate the culture of a causative pathogen that would typically die using current methods, EVEN WITH EFFECTIVE ANTIBIOTIC USE.
The control sample only grew commensal organisms.
Intended for polymicrobial sites including lung, gastric, wound, bone, and sinuses, but is suitable for any culture type.
BioSherpa™ STS releases trapped organisms from native biofilms even when the patient has been given effective antibiotic therapy.
Biosherpa™ STS reintroduces the lost art of the bedside culture by enabling practitioners to collect samples directly into our culture media, with minimal to no changes to current protocols, enhancing the chance that fragile pathogens will be isolated.
Biosherpa™ STS also works with automatic plating systems with no change in workflow. In fact, with most systems it saves steps since the sample arrives homogenized.
Biosherpa™ STS promotes the even distribution of all active organisms in its low viscosity solution which increases the probability the lab will transfer the organism from sample to culture plate. Biosherpa™ STS, a homogenized low viscosity solution, increases the chance that the lab will identify the infectious agent.
Biosherpa™ STS assists with sepsis protocols that mandate rapid antibiotic administration and will increase the ability to culture the correct pathogen, even when the patient is under antibiotic treatment.
Biosherpa™ STS facilitates antibiotic stewardship and appropriate documentation of the causative pathogen while complying with best practices for rapid antibiotic administration.
Biosherpa™ STS enables samples to be frozen for long-term storage and research. Samples can travel great distances without losing the viability of the organisms collected.