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API® ID Strip Range and APIWEB™

10 API® Strips are Used Every Minute in the World

The choice of microbiologists worldwide for its ease-of-use and high-performance, the API® ID strip range is the global reference for identification. API® Strips are supported by APIWEB™ for anytime, anywhere identification. 

  

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API ID Strip Range and APIWEB

Overview

API®: Worldwide Recognized Performance

Right from the moment it launched, API® completely revolutionized the field of bacteriology. API® brings together high quality and ease of use with standardized, miniaturized strips of biochemical tests to use with comprehensive identification databases. With API®, bacterial and fungal identification is simple, rapid, and reliable.

That’s why today, API® is recognized as THE REFERENCE for identification of bacterial and fungal species.

  • API® strips are established as the reference technique worldwide: on top of routine use, it is also used to assess the performance of other identification products
  • API® products have led to the identification of new bacterial species (e.g.: within the Staphylococcus genus and Streptococcus genus)
  • Now supported by APIWEB™ for easy interpretation

  

Reliable & Accurate

With multiple biochemical reactions in limited wells along with a wide identification database on the market, API® makes bacterial identification reliable and accurate.

  • Brings standardization
  • API® numerical identification calculation method, with related software, makes identification easy and ensures accuracy
  • Regularly updated databases and software applications
  • Most extensive range available
    • 15 identification systems – practically all groups of bacteria and yeasts
    • Over 700 different species
    • Around 1,000 different biochemical tests in routine use

  

Easy to Use and Implement in Labs

API® is easy to use and implement for both routine use and as a complementary method in labs that primarily use automated methods. 

  • ID/AST for improved workflow
  • Part of our complete offer in microbiology
  • As a complementary method:
    • Reliably confirms results
    • Comprehensive – covers gaps (Neisseria spp., Haemophilus spp., anaerobes, etc.)
  • Easy to use – supported by educational tools and videos done “by customers, for customers”

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