Year: 2012

COPAN Partners with INPECO to Offer Track System for Continuous Feeding of Specimens into WASP: Walk-Away Specimen Processor

June 11, 2012

While attending the 112th American Society for Microbiology General Meeting, COPAN is announcing a strategic partnership with INPECO for the connection of its track system FlexLab 3.6 for continuous feeding of standardized tube specimens to COPAN’s WASP: Walk-Away Specimen Processor.

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Screening Pregnant Women for Group B Streptococcus (GBS)

New Clinical Study Finds ESwab Superior Collection and Transport System for Screening Pregnant Women for Group B Streptococcus (GBS)

May 29, 2012

Universal screening of all pregnant women at 35 to 37 weeks gestation for vaginorectal colonization to prevent early onset GBS disease is now a widely adopted practice. Optimal confirmation of GBS colonization is facilitated by the appropriate collection and transport…

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COPAN Produces CDC/Joint Commission Educational Specimen Collection Videos

April 23, 2012

This week Copan launched videos demonstrating proper sample collection technique for respiratory samples. The new videos were created for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and The Joint Commission to be used in a web-based course on influenza diagnosis and…

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