The original Ibis T5000 was first adopted by government organizations involved in homeland security testing as a way to test for a broad range of organisms and possible permutations in order to defend public safety. The requirements from such testing lead to the development of the PLEX-ID system and Biothreat assay. This assay is designed to screen for and identify 17 specific biothreat agents and hundreds of related species that pose a threat to human health through the contamination of food, water and other sources.
Assay Capabilities
Detection and identification of many important bacterial and viral biothreat agents
- Detection and parsing of targeted agents from nonpathogenic near neighbors
Related Assays
The PLEX-ID Biothreat assay uses 33 primer pairs multiplexed into sixteen wells to detect and identify:
- Bacteria: Bacillus anthracis, Brucella mellitensis, Burkholderia mallei/B. pseudomallei, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, Coxiella burnetii, Francisella tularensis, Rickettsia typhi/R. prowazeki, Vibrio cholerae, Yersinia pestis, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Shigella flexneri, and Salmonella enterica
- Viruses: Ebola Marburg virus, Variola virus, Influenza A virus H5N1 (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1), Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis virus
