Company Overview

OXOID is an international company specializing in in-vitro products for the microbiology laboratory. Products include bacteriological culture media, peptones, blood culture systems, diagnostic kits, anaerobic systems and antimicrobial susceptibility systems. Customers are from both the clinical (hospital, private lab) and industrial (food, pharmaceutical) sectors. The majority of Oxoid brand products are produced at the Oxoid plant in Basingstoke, U. K. which is an F. D. A. approved facility registered under ISO 9001.

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Legal Name: Oxoid Inc.

Number of Employees: 31

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• Biotechnology

Products

• Anaerobic Systems

  Oxoid offers two systems for the generation of anaerobic and microAerophilic conditions. Oxoid gas generating and campylobacter gas generating kits are catalyst based 'traditional' jar systems. The Oxoid ANAEROGEN and CAMPYGEN systems offer the benefits of traditional jars systems while needing no catalyst, no water and producing no hydrogen.

• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Tests

  The Oxoid antimicrobial susceptibility testing system comprises a wide range of susceptibility discs in cartridge packs, a disc dispenser and a full range of culture media including Mueller Hinton agar, D. S. T. A. & ISO - Sensitest.

• Bacteriological Culture Media
• Blood Culture Systems

  Oxoid offers TWO blood culture systems, each using unique technology. SIGNAL is a one bottle system formulated to grow aerobic, anaerobic and microAerophilic organisms. ISOLATOR is a highly selective direct-draw system using lysis-centrifugation / direct plating technology.

• Peptones & Agars

  Oxoid produces bacteriological grade biological extracts including lab-lemco beef extract, casein hydrolysate, peptones, tryptone, soya peptone, yeast extract powder and various grades of agar. These products are used for diagnostic culture media and fermentation.

• Rapid Diagnostic Kits

  Oxoid produces a range of latex confirmation test for staphylococius aureus, streptococcal grouping, E. COLI 0157 & infectious mononucleosis. The products will soon be available in our DRYSPOT technology as well the company also has two tests for the food industry; the LISTERIA rapid test and SALMONELLA rapid test, both A. O. A. C. approved.

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