PREVI® COLOR GRAM
A Market-Leading Automated Gram Stainer Offering Confidence in Results
Gram staining is a key step in your microbiology workflow, and PREVI® COLOR GRAM is the system to streamline it and provide timely staining results for impactful decisions.
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- System Overview
- Reagents
- Services & Support
- Specs & Resources
System Overview
A Core Piece of the Puzzle to Standardize Your Workflow
These days, your microbiology lab faces many challenges due to increased staffing, time, and workflow pressures, but that can’t influence your quality standards and the need for accuracy, fast time-to-results, and full traceability for accreditation. Automated and designed for intuitive workflow, PREVI® COLOR GRAM gives you confidence in the results you provide. It makes Gram staining easy and safe while ensuring accurate, standardized, traceable results in minutes.
- Supports Antibiotic Therapy Adjustments: Faster Gram staining results on blood culture positives decrease the mortality rate.1
- Accurate, Standardized, Traceable Staining: Automated and traceable results mean less potential for manual errors and improved reliability, while ensuring repeatability of the results.
- Increased Productivity: Ready-to-use reagents, including a range of 4 decolorizer-counter stains; a spray technology for safe, reliable, and fast results with up to 30 slides in 6 minutes.
- Improved Customer Experience: Easy-to-use with an intuitive user interace, adaptable to customers’ needs, no technical skills required.
- Increased Safety: Safe for the operator with closed reagent bottles; safe for the laboratory with a self-contained waste system; safe for the planet using just enough reagent.
- Troubleshooting Assistance: Automated cleaning, maintenance alerts, and level monitoring.
PREVI® COLOR GRAM Workflow
Gram Staining Plays a Vital Role in the Lab
References
1. Am J Clin Pathol 2008; 130:870-876
Reagents
PREVI® COLOR GRAM enables our customers to perform automated Gram staining of human specimen smears and pure strain isolate smears using bioMérieux reagents. PREVI® COLOR GRAM features a spray technology dispensing the correct amount of reagent each time.
| Function | Product Name | Reference | Reference* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Stain | Crystal Violet | 29524 | 29587 |
| Mordant | Iodine | 29523 | 29586 |
| Decolorizer & Counter Stain | Acetone Safranin Safranin Acetone Fuchsin Fuchsin | 29519 29520 29521 29522 | 29582 29583 29584 29585 |
| *Dedicated to USA, Canada & Latin America countries. | |||
Services & Support
bioMérieux takes care of your lab offering a high-level of service that extends through the life of your instrument. Our service offering includes:
- Installation: by bioMérieux professionals
- Training: by bioMérieux Field Applications Specialists
- Verification Package: our team will accompany your team in the execution of your instrument qualification
- Technical Support and Service Contract: 1 year warranty and comprehensive service contract
- Ongoing Education: E-learnings
Specs & Resources
Technical Specifications
| PREVI® COLOR GRAM - Ref. 414292 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Slide Carousel Capacity | 12 (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 12) 30 (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 30) | Ref. 415591 Ref. 415592 |
| Dimensions | H 25.5 cm x W 58.5 cm x D 56 cm | |
| Clearance Height (Lid Open) | 58 cm | |
| Weight | 15.5 kg | |
| High Throughput | 12-120 slides/hour (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 12) 30-300 slides/hour (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 30) | |
The PREVI® COLOR Cytocentrifuge Rotor is available from bioMérieux as an option offering additional features. It allows rapid sedimentation of specimen cells onto microscope slides for staining or other purposes.
| PREVI® COLOR CYTOCENTRIFUGE ROTOR (Optional Application) - Ref. 29506 | |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 8 Chambers and Slides |
| Weight | 1.1 kg |
| Dimensions | Diameter 22.6 cm x H 6.2 cm |
| Speed | Programmable 100 to 2000 rpm |
| Body Fluids | Bronchoalveolar Liquid (BAL) Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Urine Synovial Fluid |
