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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- Overview
- APIWEB™
- Resources
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”
APIWEB™
Committed to remaining at the forefront of innovation, bioMérieux brings a new dimension to the reference API® biochemical test strip range by making identification available to everyone, anytime, anywhere. A tool that leverages the technologies of today and tomorrow, APIWEB™ is the essential complement to manual identification.
User-Friendly
APIWEB™ – it’s as simple as navigating a web page
- Internet platform
- Easy-to-use integrated intuitive interface that uses internet navigation tools
- Available anytime 24/7
- Reading assistance for each identification strip
Reliable Complement to Manual Identification
For years, the API® ID strip range has been appreciated by microbiologists over the world for its quality and ease-of-use. In fact, the standardized, miniaturized strips of biochemical tests are the reference for bacterial and fungal identification. API® has a wide identification database on the market and a numerical identification calculation method that brings standardization and makes identification easy and accurate.
Considering that 10 API® strips are used every minute, APIWEB™ is an invaluable tool for the microbiology community.
Get High Performance Results
With APIWEB™, you get a reliable, state-of-the-art interpretation tool. It contains the regularly updated API®/ID32 databases. Plus, APIWEB™ interprets a great number of profiles enabling the identification of more than 700 species of bacteria and yeast. It’s the straightforward and easy way to get high-performance results!
Each identification includes a complete report:
- Species proposed
- Comment on the reliability of the identification, based on two indices:
- the identification percentage (probability of species identification)
- the typicity index (typical character of the profile studied)
- Complete biochemical profile
- Additional information and tests
Secure Connection
Your privacy as a user and the confidentiality of your results are important to us. That’s why we’ve made sure that APIWEB™ is protected by full security.
- Secure site, personalized access codes
- Data encoding to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of your results
- Highly reactive tool maintenance
