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
This list contains the entries that are in the following libraries:
- IBA1 Instant Clinical Blood Agar library (35°C), version 1.10.
- ITSA1 Instant Environmental TSA library (30°C) version 1.10.
- IR2A1 Instant Environmental R2A library (30°C) version 1.10.
- 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:
- 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:
- TSBA, Environmental bacteria library used by methods TSBA6 and RTSBA6
- 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:
- 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:
- ACTIN1, Actinomyces library used by methods ACTIN6 and SACTIN6.
- BHIBLA, Anaerobe plate library used by methods ANAER6 and SANAER6.
- FUNGI, Fungal library used by methods FUNGI6 and SFUNGI6.
- MI7H10, Mycobacteria library used by methods MYCO6 and SMYCO6.
- YST28, Environmental yeast library used by methods YEAST6 and SYEAST6.
- YSTCLN, Clinical yeast library used by methods YSTCLN6 and SYSTCLN6.
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:
- BTR, Bioterrorism bacteria library used by methods BTR3 and RBTR3.