Products: Sherlock® Microbial ID System (MIS): Libraries

Operation of the Sherlock Microbial Identification System (MIS) requires purchasing one or more fatty acid-based libraries, based on your requirements. The Base Sherlock package comes with the Aerobic Bacteria Library. All libraries contain summarized data from reference strains of fatty acid-containing microbes grown under standardized conditions.

"Instant" 3 Minute Sample Preparation Method

Instant FAME Libraries (PDF)

This list contains the entries that are in the following libraries:

  1. IBA1 Instant Clinical Blood Agar library (35°C), version 1.10.
  2. ITSA1 Instant Environmental TSA library (30°C) version 1.10.
  3. IR2A1 Instant Environmental R2A library (30°C) version 1.10.
  4. ITY1 Instant Environmental TSA Fungi/Yeast library (30°C) version 1.00.

Instant Anaerobe Library (PDF)

This list contains the entries that are in the following library:

  1. IAN1 Instant Anaerobe library on Brucella Agar (35°C), version 1.00.

"Traditional" 1.5 Hour Sample Preparation Method

Aerobic Bacteria Libraries 6.1 (PDF)

This list contains the entries that are in the following libraries:

  1. TSBA, Environmental bacteria library used by methods TSBA6 and RTSBA6
  2. CLIN, Clinical bacteria library used by methods CLIN6 and RCLIN6.

Anaerobic Bacteria Libraries 6.0 (PDF)

This list contains the entries that are in the following library:

  1. MOORE, Anaerobe broth library used by methods MOORE6 and SMOORE6.

Yeast and Other Libraries 6.0 (PDF)

This list contains the entries that are in the following libraries:

  1. ACTIN1, Actinomyces library used by methods ACTIN6 and SACTIN6.
  2. BHIBLA, Anaerobe plate library used by methods ANAER6 and SANAER6.
  3. FUNGI, Fungal library used by methods FUNGI6 and SFUNGI6.
  4. MI7H10, Mycobacteria library used by methods MYCO6 and SMYCO6.
  5. YST28, Environmental yeast library used by methods YEAST6 and SYEAST6.
  6. YSTCLN, Clinical yeast library used by methods YSTCLN6 and SYSTCLN6.

Biodefense Library 3.0 (PDF)

The Sherlock Bioterrorism library identifies the 6 major bacterial agents of
bioterrorism / biowarfare and is AOAC INTERNATIONAL cleared for confirmation
of Bacillus anthracis, the anthrax pathogen. BSL-3 laboratories only.

This list contains the entries that are in the following library:

  1. BTR, Bioterrorism bacteria library used by methods BTR3 and RBTR3.