Reagentless Bacterial Identification Using a Combination of Multiwavelength Transmission and Angular Scattering Spectroscopy

Table 1

Comparison of SpectraWave (Claro Scientific) and Vitek-2 (bioMerieux) bacterial identification techniques.

Item	SpectraWave™	bioMerieux Vitek-2
Intended use	Bacterial identification	Bacterial identification
Sample type	Bacterial culture	Bacterial culture
Mode of identification	Optical profile	Microbial utilization and degradations of substrates
A priori testing required	None	Gram stain
Assay format	Reagentless algorithm based identification	Colorimetric biochemical tests
Single use/disposable	N/A	Yes
Time to results	5 minutes	4–10 hours
Interpretation of test results	Automated	Automated

The system will be automated upon further development.