m2000 RealTime System by Abbott

"After sale services is excellent."

"An interesting piece of equipment with very high performance specification."

"Relatively fast equipment with a severe procedure to check contamination. Easy to use. A good final step for extraction-amplification-detection strategies."

"The product does sample extraction and real time PCR analysis of a bulk of samples in less than 5 hours, and the after sales support of highly trained local engineers means that no testing service is interrupted at any point in time. Additionally, reagents are readily available all year round."

"The system is very effective for the extraction of RNA and DNA samples for real-time PCR amplification. It is easy to use but with extra care and following instructions to the dot. The results are reproducible. The Abbott chemistry system enables detection of all HIV sub-types in case of qualitative HIV PCR. The entire system was designed to remain free of contamination. Only the conductive tips and the reaction tubes are in contact with the sample, and these are non reusable. After sales service is good, though in some cases the field service engineers delay responding to the concerns raised by the users. Value for money is quite high when large numbers of samples are being analyzed routinely. What others need to know is that it is very important to use ultra-filtered water as the system fluid to ensure tubing remains clean for a very long period."

"The process takes too much take time and high reagent cost."

"Equipment very robust and safe, the results are reliable (reproducible results observed at all times we had the need to repeat samples or make validations), allows you to perform a lot of samples at the same time (which is great for labs with a large order of tests), easy to handle and requires little user manipulation (which minimizes errors and risk of contamination)."