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Agreement between MIT & Agricultural Research Services
Micro Imaging Technology (MIT) has ventured out a Material Transfer Agreement with the Agricultural Research services (ARS) for identifying and evaluating the MIT 1000 system for rapidly classifying and identifying the bacterial pathogens. At present MIT 1000 System can identify and classify up to 23 species of bacteria in few minutes at 10 cents cost per test, which can be easily expandable. The main scientific agency of the U.S Department of Agriculture, ARS is indulge in doing the research activities for conducting various activities directed towards in developing and transferring solutions for emerging agriculture problems, which are of prime importance from national point of view. It helps in accessing and disseminating of information for
Going by terms of the agreement, MIT will offer 1000 System to ERRC whereby ARS scientists in their initial stages will evaluate the System's performance for the identification of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus). The bacterium present in the soil, food, stream water, sewage plant, Listeria monocytogenes is a gram positive bacteria. Listeria is the causing factor of listeriosis, which is an uncommon food food borne infection. Staphylococcus aureus is a more common cause of staph infection. It is a spherical bacteria which is living in the nose or on skin of the human being. It is responsible for creating different diseases starting from minor skin infections (like pimples, furuncles, impetigo) to dreadful diseases (like pneumonia, septicemia). It is still characterized among four most common causes of nosocomial infections. In the agreement it has been decided to take on some species and strains of both Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureus. Both organizations will be corroboragted for addressing the various activities for targetting the applications that could inevitably prevent from reaching of contimanted food in the hands of final consumers. Afterwards the said agreement will move in a direction with the same objective of including the Vibrio parahaemolyticus (a bacterium found in seafood), E.coli and Salmonella. About Micro Imaging Technology The company has a technology for identifying the microbe. When the individual microbes pass through the laser beam, it measures and records the light intensity. The intensity pattern of the scattered light influence with the size, shape and various internal & external optical attributes of the microbe. The respective MIT System is non bilogical in nature and remains unaffected by the biological agents, fluorescent tags, conventional chemical processing, gas chromatography or DNA analysis. MIT demonstrated its ability of identifying the various microbes Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria, Salmonella and other types of pathogenic bacteria. In recent time, MIT has completed its more than 300 tests for identifying the aforesaid contaminants and achieved 95 per cent. The said identification process has been approved by North American Science Associates, Inc. (NAMSA), which is an independent and globally recognized biological testing laboratory. |
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