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PREVI® COLOR GRAM

A Market-Leading Automated Gram Stainer Offering Confidence in Results 

Gram staining is a key step in your microbiology workflow, and PREVI® COLOR GRAM is the system to streamline it and provide timely staining results for impactful decisions.

  

Disclaimer: Product availability varies by country. Please consult your local bioMérieux representative for product availability in your country. 

System Overview

A Core Piece of the Puzzle to Standardize Your Workflow 

These days, your microbiology lab faces many challenges due to increased staffing, time, and workflow pressures, but that can’t influence your quality standards and the need for accuracy, fast time-to-results, and full traceability for accreditation. Automated and designed for intuitive workflow, PREVI® COLOR GRAM gives you confidence in the results you provide. It makes Gram staining easy and safe while ensuring accurate, standardized, traceable results in minutes.

  • Supports Antibiotic Therapy Adjustments: Faster Gram staining results on blood culture positives decrease the mortality rate.1
  • Accurate, Standardized, Traceable Staining: Automated and traceable results mean less potential for manual errors and improved reliability, while ensuring repeatability of the results.
  • Increased Productivity: Ready-to-use reagents, including a range of 4 decolorizer-counter stains; a spray technology for safe, reliable, and fast results with up to 30 slides in 6 minutes.  
  • Improved Customer Experience: Easy-to-use with an intuitive user interace, adaptable to customers’ needs, no technical skills required.
  • Increased Safety: Safe for the operator with closed reagent bottles; safe for the laboratory with a self-contained waste system; safe for the planet using just enough reagent.
  • Troubleshooting Assistance: Automated cleaning, maintenance alerts, and level monitoring.

  

Gram Staining Plays a Vital Role in the Lab 

  

References

1. Am J Clin Pathol 2008; 130:870-876

Reagents

PREVI® COLOR GRAM enables our customers to perform automated Gram staining of human specimen smears and pure strain isolate smears using bioMérieux reagents. PREVI® COLOR GRAM features a spray technology dispensing the correct amount of reagent each time.

FunctionProduct NameReferenceReference*
Primary StainCrystal Violet2952429587
MordantIodine2952329586
Decolorizer & Counter StainAcetone Safranin
Safranin
Acetone Fuchsin
Fuchsin
29519
29520
29521
29522
29582
29583
29584
29585
*Dedicated to USA, Canada & Latin America countries.
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Services & Support

bioMérieux takes care of your lab offering a high-level of service that extends through the life of your instrument. Our service offering includes: 

  • Installation: by bioMérieux professionals
  • Training: by bioMérieux Field Applications Specialists
  • Verification Package: our team will accompany your team in the execution of your instrument qualification
  • Technical Support and Service Contract: 1 year warranty and comprehensive service contract
  • Ongoing Education: E-learnings

System Services

Systems are a major investment for your lab. Night and day, you depend on them to help you provide clinicians with fast, reliable results for better patient care. With System Services from bioMérieux: maximize routine lab workflow, cover increased productivity needs, and deliver high quality patient results confidently and continuously.

Specs & Resources

Technical Specifications

PREVI® COLOR GRAM - Ref. 414292
Slide Carousel Capacity12 (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 12)
30 (PREVI® COLOR GRAM 30)
Ref. 415591
Ref. 415592
DimensionsH 25.5 cm x W 58.5 cm x D 56 cm 
Clearance Height (Lid Open)58 cm 
Weight15.5 kg 
High Throughput12-120 slides/hour
(PREVI® COLOR GRAM 12)
30-300 slides/hour
(PREVI® COLOR GRAM 30)
 
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The PREVI® COLOR Cytocentrifuge Rotor is available from bioMérieux as an option offering additional features. It allows rapid sedimentation of specimen cells onto microscope slides for staining or other purposes.

PREVI® COLOR CYTOCENTRIFUGE ROTOR (Optional Application) - Ref. 29506
Capacity8 Chambers and Slides
Weight1.1 kg
DimensionsDiameter 22.6 cm x H 6.2 cm
SpeedProgrammable 100 to 2000 rpm
Body FluidsBronchoalveolar Liquid (BAL)
Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF)
Urine
Synovial Fluid
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Resources

PREVI® COLOR GRAM Brochure

Add an extra piece to your automated microbiology solution.

Spreading Confidence Brochure

Fully automated stain process from fixation to drying.