Selectrol® is a fully traceable and cost effective range of first generation micro-organisms which have predictable biochemical reactions, making it ideal for a variety of quality control and testing applications.
Quality control of culture media, staining reactions, biochemical profiling.
Determination of antibiotic concentrations in blood, serum or CSF samples.
Antibiotic susceptibility testing controls, whether by disc diffusion or serial dilution.
Selectrol® is a first generation derivative of original stock cultures obtained exclusively from the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC®) or National Collection of Pathogenic Fungi (NCPF®). Where appropriate other international strain designations, such as the ATCC®, are listed for reference purposes only.
Selectrol® strains are presented as water-soluble freeze-dried discs with most strains being available in packs of 10 or 25 discs. Selectrol® is versatile, and can be inoculated directly onto solid media or dissolved in an appropriate broth.
Certificates of Analysis are available to download from our website: www.tcsbiosciences.co.uk.
To ensure you have the most recent Selectrol® listing, please contact our Customer Service team.
Selectrol® discs are manufactured under license from UK Health Security Agency.
NCTC® and NCPF® are trademarks of UK Health Security Agency.
ATCC® strains are listed for reference only.
ATCC® is a registered trademark of the American Type Culture Collection.
With over 50 years’ experience in the manufacture and distribution of laboratory reagents, test kits and quality control reagents, TCS Biosciences Ltd are proud to be Europe’s leading provider of high quality solutions that are utilised across a broad range of applications.
Widely recognised as Europe’s foremost supplier of animal blood and sera for microbiological use, our company is a prominent player in the UK water industry as well as the European pharmaceutical market. We are committed to the needs of our customers and strive to exceed their expectations.
Some of the products and services we provide here at TCS include Bovine Serum Albumin, Donor Bovine Serum, Fetal Calf Serum, Human Serum and Plasma, Accu-Bac Quantitative Micro-Organisms, Cardinal Biologicals, Donor Animal Blood, Newborn Calf Serum, Selectrol, Human Platelet Lysate, Affinity Chromatography, Colloidal Gold, Dyes and Stains, Histopathology, Sample Collection, Colikat-Rapid, Gonochek, Serology Reagents, Crypto-Cel FITC, Giardia-Cel FITC, EasySeed, Oocysts & Cysts, ColorSeed, EasyStain, TECTA Automated Microbiology Detection System and more.
Here at TCS Biosciences, we cater primarily to the pharmaceutical, clinical, food and water industries, working with a vast array of customers throughout the UK and Europe. We employ a team of experienced and knowledgeable professionals who take great pride in their work and will ensure clients that their project will be dealt with as effectively as possible.
Whether clients are looking for animal blood products, diagnostic kits, dyes and stains, serums and plasmas, microbiological media or histology, our company is more than happy to assist.
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