Caribbean Medical Supplies Inc bags Norma Partner of the Year 2021 Award for Latin America & the Caribbean Region.
Increasing its footprint within the Caribbean Region, Caribbean Medical Supplies Inc has recently received the International Partner of the Year Award from Norma Instruments Zrt. for the Year 2021 for their outstanding performance in Latin America & the Caribbean region. These world-class European-made hematology systems are now successfully installed in Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname, Dominica and would soon be installed in Jamaica and Antigua.
Norma in a press release indicated that “the winners were selected in a complex evaluation process and the judging criteria were defined in agreement with the sales and business development, the technical support, the product management & regulatory, and the marketing departments approved by the management of Norma Instruments Zrt.”
Upon receipt of the award, the team members of Caribbean Medical Supplies Inc were elated and expressed gratitude as the year 2022 has been a fruitful one. The company earned its ISO 9001:2015 Certification in the said year and now supplies medical equipment and consumables to eight CARICOM Countries.
In receipt of the Award, Managing Director Davendra Rampersaud stated “We are humbled to receive this award, especially competing with large countries like Mexico, Brazil and other countries. Our vision is to provide diagnostic equipment that offers the highest accuracy for patient care at an affordable price throughout the Caribbean region.”
Managing Director of CMSI – Mr. Davendra Rampersaud (left) receiving the award from
Mr. Csaba Hilt (right) – VP of Norma Diagnostica
Antimicrobial Resistance Management -Liofilchem Microbiology Products
New Aztreonam-avibactam MTS
New Aztreonam-avibactam MTS™ (MIC Test Strip), AZA 0.016/4-256/ μg/mL , is a quantitative method for the in-vitro susceptibility testing of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales to Aztreonam-avibactam.
MTS™ consists of special porous paper impregnated with a pre-defined concentration gradient of an antimicrobial agent, used to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) in μg/mL of antimicrobial agents against bacteria as tested on agar media using overnight incubation and manual reading procedures.
Aztreonam-avibactam MTS™ 0.016/4-256/4 μg/mL
ref. 920891 – 10/pack (individually packed)
ref. 92089 – 30/pack (individually packed)
ref. 920890 – 100/pack
EnteroPluri-Test
for the identification of Gram-negative, oxidase-negative bacteria.
EnteroPluri-Test is a 12-sector system containing special culture media that permits the identification of
Enterobacteriaceae and other Gram-negative, oxidase-negative bacteria. EnteroPluri-Test allows the simultaneous inoculation of all media present in the sectors and 15 biochemical reactions. The microorganism is identified by evaluating the colour change of the culture media after 18-24 hours of incubation at 36±1 °C and by a code number obtained with the biochemical reactions reading.
ref. 78618
10/pack
ref. 78619
25/pack
Settle plates for air monitoring
The 90 mm settle plates contain 30 mL of agar to compensate for desiccation after active sampling of 1000 litres of air and are suitable for prolonged incubation to favour the detection of microorganisms.
Settle plates are either exposed to air for a certain time or used with a microbial air sampler to physically draw a pre-determined volume of air, for detecting microbial airborne contaminations. They can also be used for personnel applications (i.e. gloves).
Settle plates are available both as gamma-irradiated, triple-enveloped for clean rooms and non-irradiated, single-enveloped for less critical environments and are conform to international standards such as EU cGMP, FDA Aseptic Guidance and USP 34.
The 30 mL settle plates are available as Tryptic Soy agar (TSA), w/ or w/o Penase or Lactamator in various concentrations and Sabouraud Dextrose agar (SDA). They are supplemented with neutralizers such as lecithin (L), tween 80 (T), histidine (H) and sodium thiosulfate (Th) for inactivating a wide range of disinfectants. Paperless and secure identification of individual plates is granted by the 2D Data matrix barcode on each plate.
- 30 mL agar plate
- 20 plates/pack
- Gamma-irradiated
- Triple-bagged
- 2D data matrix code on each plate
Liofilchem Microbiology Products – Food & Beverage Applications
Rapid Y/M Agar
Selective medium for enumeration of yeasts and molds
Rapid Y/M Agar is a medium used for selective isolation and enumeration of yeasts and molds from food, animal feeding stuff, water and environmental samples. The medium formulation allows accelerating detection compared to other media commonly recommended for the cultivation of yeasts and molds . Unlike DRBC and DG18, which are used for high (ISO 21527-1) and low (ISO 21527-2) water activity products, respectively, Y/M Agar can be used with samples regardless of their water activity.
Ref. 10456
90 mm plates, 20/pack
6 months shelf life
2-8°C storage temperature
Ref. 412470
200 mL bottle, 6/pack
12 months shelf life
2-8°C storage temperature
Contam Swab Listeria
Contam Swab Listeria is a swab containing a chromogenic culture medium used for the detection of Listeria spp. directly from surfaces.
Stored at room temperature, smeared on a surface, and incubated at 37°C for 18-24 hours, the Contam Swab product range delivers an easy and convenient detection of microorganisms directly from surfaces through a clear colour change of the culture medium.
30 swabs/pack
Catalogue ref. 86102
10-25°C storage temperature
6 months shelf life
Quality Control applications
CultiControl
Freeze-dried microorganisms
CultiControl microorganisms are lyophilized, reference stock culture preparations containing a single strain of a microorganism. These microorganism preparations are intended to be used for
quality control of cultural media, educational/instructional programs and industrial applications.
The microorganism preparations are derived from ATCC® (American Type Culture Collection) or NCTC® (National Collection of Type Cultures, operated by the UK Health Security Agency).
Liofilchem Microbiology Products – Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance Management
RPMI Agar
for antifungal susceptibility testing
RPMI Agar (RPMI1640, MOPS, L-glutamine, 2% Glucose) is intended for the AFST (antifungal susceptibility testing) and is recommended for usage with Antifungal MTS™ (MIC Test Strip).
Pick 4-5 colonies from 24-hours old cultures and suspend them in saline solution or sterile water in order to obtain a 0.5 McFarland cell density.
Introduce a sterile swab into the suspension and inoculate the RPMI Agar plate.
Allow the plate to dry, and position the antifungal strip onto the agar surface with the maximum concentration nearest the periphery of the plate.
Incubate at 35 °C for 24-48 hours.
Read the M.I.C. value where the edge of the inhibition ellipse intersects the strip (the intersection between two scale segments should be round up to the higher value).
Available ready-to-use formats:
Ref. 11509
90 mm agar plate
20/pack
Ref. 10233
140 mm agar plate
10/pack
10-25°C storage temperature
180 days shelf life
Inbox us today for more information and to place your orders!
Caribbean Medical Supplies Inc is officially ISO Certified!
It is with great pleasure that we announce that CMSI has officially been certified by Equal Assurance that we conform to the requirements of the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems.
This achievement is a celebration of our team’s continued effort to improve ourselves and the organization through the services that we provide. We are committed to delivering quality service and improve. This achievement is a testament to our continual efforts to meet and exceed the demands and expectations of our awesome customers.
We sincerely thank our customers for their continued support throughout the years and appreciate their inputs, which have played a crucial part in our growth and continued success.
Liofilchem Microbiology Products (Antimicrobial Resistance Management)
Mueller Hinton Fastidious Broth and ComASP Benzylpenicillin
Mueller Hinton Fastidious Broth (MH-F broth) consists of ready-to-use, cation-adjusted MH broth supplemented with 5% lysed horse blood and 20 mg/L β-NAD. This medium is recommended by the
European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) for MIC determination by the broth microdilution method of Streptococcus spp. (including S. pneumoniae), Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Listeria monocytogenes, Campylobacter jejuni and coli, Pasteurella multocida, Corynebacterium spp., Aerococcus sanguinicola and urinae, Kingella kingae and several other fastidious organisms.
new 11 mL tubes – 20/pack – ref. 21105
3.6 mL tubes (suitable for ComASP) – 20/pack – ref. 27507
2-8°C storage temperature
4 months shelf life
ComASP® Benzylpenicillin 0.002-32 µg/mL is an in-vitro diagnostic device for the quantitative determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of benzylpenicillin against Streptococcus pneumoniae.
ref. 75011
6 panels (2 tests/panel)
2-8°C storage temperature
16 months shelf life
ComASP® are Compact Antimicrobial Susceptibility Panel for determining MIC through broth microdilution according to ISO 20776-1:2019 standard, available both in a preset of antibiotic ranges and customizable assortments of agents and concentration ranges to meet the special needs of laboratories of any sizes.
WL Nutrient Agar
Medium for the cultivation and enumeration of yeasts, moulds and bacteria in the brewing and other fermentation industries.
WL (Wallerstein Laboratory) Nutrient Agar is a medium used for the cultivation and enumeration of fungal and bacterial species that can be encountered in beer brewing and other industrial fermentations. This medium meets the formula developed by Green and Gray while studying various fermentation processes.
Ref. 163712
20 plates/pack
10-25°C storage temperature
6 months shelf life
Quanti-CultiControl
for growth promotion testing of culture media
The Quanti-CultiControl are lyophilized, quantitative microorganism preparations to be used in industrial laboratories for Quality Control purposes. Processed as directed, these preparations provide a challenge of
<100 CFU per 0.1 mL, which is a concentration usually suitable for several pharmaceutical applications, including growth promotion testing of culture media to be employed in sterility testing. These microorganism preparations are derived from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC®).
The Quanti-CultiControl are suitable for the Growth Promotion Test recommended by the international Pharmacopoeia, without the need for intermediate dilution steps, since each rehydrated suspension generates less than 100 UFC for 0.1 mL inoculum. Each suspension (1 mL) allows 10 inocula.
Liofilchem – Solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance Management
Ready-to-use Agar Dilution panels
With an increase in the numbers of bacterial isolates resistant to first-line antibiotics, there has been a revival in the use of older drugs including fosfomycin. Although several commercial tests based on different techniques have been developed, Agar Dilution (AD) is considered the best method for performing Fosfomycin susceptibility testing so far.
The AD Fosfomycin 0.25-256 is the first and only (international patent pending) ready-to-use commercially available kit for performing the agar dilution antimicrobial susceptibility testing, in compliance with the CLSI and EUCAST standards, with 4 months shelf life at present.
The AD Fosfomycin panel comprises 12 wells, containing the antibiotic incorporated into an agar medium in different concentrations, i.e. 11 two-fold dilutions (0.25-256 μg/mL).
Fosfomycin Agar Dilution panel
ref. 77001 – 1 panel/pack
ref. 77061 – 6 panels/pack
Chromatic CRE
for detecting Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
Chromatic CRE contains a mixture of carbapenems for screening a wide variety of carbapenem-resistance mechanisms and provides presumptive identification of E. coli and the Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Serratia and Citrobacter (KESC) group directly from clinical specimens.
Carbapenems, successfully used to treat multi-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections, including ESBL positive strains, are not efficacious against the Enterobacteriaceae resistant to carbapenems, thus generating a significant risk of hospital-acquired infections.
Ready to use agar plates:
Ref. 11619
20/pack
90 days shelf life
2-8°C storage temperature
Dehydrated powder + supplement:
Ref. 611619
500 g
+ Chromatic CRE Supplement
Ref. 81088
10 vials/pack
Boditech Interleukin-6
Interleukin-6
The earliest alarming for sepsis
Every minute and every second, the medical team had always encountered challenges. The clinicians kept thinking about how to detect a baby’s condition earlier and how to reduce antibiotics administration. Interleukin-6 acts as a pro-inflammation cytokine and a key mediator of inflammation. During the acute phase of infection, B and T lymphocytes are stimulated to produce the Interleukin-6 cytokine, which in turn induces hepatocyte production of acute-phase reactants such as CRP.
With these characteristics, the Interleukin-6 could help to detect EOS(Early Onset Sepsis) earlier and can work as a complementary function with existing tests such as CRP(C-Reactive Protein) and PCT(Procalcitonin). Boditech Med has launched the AFIAS Interleukin-6 in September 2020, and it has been landed successfully. It is expected that the AFIAS Interleukin-6 test aid to detect inflammation in the early stage and will contribute to improving the newborn’s health.
Interleukin-6, an essential test for NICU and children’s hospital
1. Early Onset Sepsis occurs within 72 hours of life
Neonatal sepsis is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in neonates, especially in those born preterm. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimated 1.3 million annual incident cases of neonatal sepsis and other infections 2,874 sepsis cases per 100,000 live births and a mortality of 17.6%.
2. Exposure to inappropriate and/or excessive antibiotic use
Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed class of medications in the NICU. The probability of EOS combined with the clinical instability characteristic of premature newborns leads to high rates of empirical antibiotic treatment. previous studies demonstrate that neonatal clinicians administer antibiotics from birth in 79% to 98%.
3. C-tip is the ideal method for infants’ or children’s sample collection
An infant’s blood collection cannot exceed 1% of body blood, usually premature baby is under 2 kg therefore, 1 ml for once is maximum. The research shows, that 51.7% of hospitals in Korea collect 0.5 ml, and 24.1% collect 1 ml from an infant’s heel for a blood culture test. It is already in the dangerous range for infants.
NICU clinicians need the method to improve diagnostic capabilities, which can provide reliable results, early and rapid, simple and safely in the patient’s bedside or in the ICU.
AFIAS parameters
ichroma parameters
