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ProtoCOL 3 Plus
ProtoCOL3 Plus

ProtoCOL3 Plus is an automated colony counter and zone reading system in one. With a high specification CCD camera and a system of LED lighting, it provides perfect illumination for imaging any coloured colony plate. The high quality of the imaging allows you to clearly distinguish different colours of colony on one plate, making this an excellent choice if you want to identify and count specific microorganisms from a mixed population or on chromogenic media.

A fully automatic colony counter and zone reading system

High resolution camera and LED lighting

Use plates up to 150mm diameter

Dark screens eliminate ambient light effects

Counts colonies as small as 43 microns













Increased speed, accuracy and efficiency

Wrap-around, dark, screen doors are specially designed to eliminate the effects of ambient light, sunlight, fluorescent tubes and therefore improve your imaging results.

ProtoCOL3 Plus comes complete with a colour touch-screen PC. The software automatically compensates for such things as: different coloured media; agar thickness and environmental debris.

This system can accurately count colonies on spread, pour or spiral plates along with a range of other application options.

The ProtoCOL3 Plus 17" touch-screen PC can be placed at the side of the unit or mounted on top if bench space is limited. The unit has two USB ports and a DVD drive to facilitate the downloading of information for further analysis. An SQL databse stores all data and images, and the software is Windows 7 compatible. All data generated is GLP/GMP compliant with a full audit trail and can be used to produce professional reports.

 

Multiple Applications

ProtoCOL3 Plus is the perfect system for multiple applications including food, water, dairy, beverages, hygiene, clinical microbiology, environmental monitoring, toxicology, pharmaceuticals and fungal contamination. To extend the range of applications, additional modules can be added for spiral, OPKA, SBA, Multi-sector, Multi-well, SRD and Ames.

Colony Counting Plate



Colony Counting: Automatically counts pour plates with single or multi-coloured colonies. Can also discriminate based on size and shape.




Spiral Plate



Spiral Plates: ProtoCOL2 can count spiral plates by counting colony sectors or the whole plate.

 



OPKA Plate

 

OPKA (Opsonophagocytic killing assay): OPKA is a useful test for measuring antibody function and is a good surragate assay for immune protection.




Ames Plate

Ames Assay: Reverse mutation assay is used to test whether samples are mutagenic and are therefore more likely to be carcinogenic.




Multi-sector Air Plate


Multi-sector Air Plates: Multi-sector plates are often used for environmental monitoring, specifically air sampling.

 

 

 

 See also: Protocol UV