IR Biotyper®
The IR Biotyper ® , leveraging FT-IR spectroscopy, enables swift, user-friendly, and cost-effective same-day typing of microbial strains for applications in hospital hygiene, epidemiology, industrial hygiene control, and source tracking.
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Introducing the IR Biotyper®, powered by FT-IR spectroscopy, for rapid and effortless microbial strain typing. Taking microbial analysis beyond species, this innovative tool excels in identifying strains and subspecies swiftly. Unlike traditional molecular technologies notorious for being expensive, time-consuming, and cumbersome, the IR Biotyper® delivers same-day results.
In hospital hygiene management, there is a significant demand for rapid, user-friendly, and cost-effective typing methods for infection control, epidemiological studies, and gaining insights into infection pathogenesis. Bruker's IR Biotyper® offers a solution tailored to subtyping microorganisms, addressing hospital hygiene needs with exceptional discriminatory power comparable to routine molecular genetic methods. This real-time surveillance capability of the IR Biotyper® aids in promptly identifying hygiene-related outbreaks on hospital wards, providing a valuable edge over molecular strain typing, which often takes days and yields results only for the records. Our IR Biotyper® plays a crucial role in empowering the healthcare community to proactively prevent hospital-acquired infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes, ensuring a more effective defence against these challenging adversaries.
In food, beverage and pharmaceutical production lines, where hygiene control and source tracking are crucial, the IR Biotyper® enables real-time monitoring and source tracking. The IR Biotyper® proves also valuable for control of beneficial microorganisms. For maintaining quality and consistency in products derived from these, implementing Quality Control (QC) strategies is imperative in monitoring biotechnological manufacturing. The IR Biotyper® streamlines this process, allowing for strain typing of technological strains in less than 3 hours, contributing to efficient monitoring and quality assurance.
Brochures
IR Biotyper: Microbial strain typing for real-time epidemiology
The IR Biotyper offers a fast, cost-effective solution for microorganism strain typing using infrared spectroscopy. With high specificity and real-time results, it provides a practical alternative to traditional methods like PFGE, MLST, and WGS. Ideal for infection control and epidemiological studies.
Your laboratory's pathway to accurate antibiotic prescription
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global public health—projected to cause 10 million deaths annually by 2050. The ability to prescribe the right antibiotic at the right time has never been more critical.
In this brochure, find out how Beckman Coulter’s DxM Trio delivers the precision and speed your clinical laboratory needs to support effective antibiotic stewardship.
Key takeaways
- Real-time detection
Detect emerging resistance confidently with MicroScan® panels—ensuring accurate and timely results. - Rapid organism ID
Identify pathogens in minutes using Bruker’s MALDI Biotyper® sirius System—the most comprehensive organism library on the market. - Direct ID from positive blood cultures
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Intuitive interface and visual cues on the DxM MicroScan WalkAway system help streamline lab operations.
With antibiotic development slowing and resistance accelerating, your laboratory plays a pivotal role. Download the brochure to learn how to empower your team to identify threats early, guide appropriate therapy, and optimize care—safely, efficiently, and reliably.
Outbreak analysis of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci by the IR Biotyper
This application note investigates the use of Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy for rapid strain typing of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) during a healthcare-associated outbreak. FT-IR is compared to established methods like PFGE and MLST to assess its effectiveness for real-time transmission tracking.
Bruker’s IR Biotyper: Paving the way to real-time outbreak control
This application note assesses the IR Biotyper®, a Bruker FT-IR spectroscopy system, for rapid and accurate typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae to support epidemiological surveillance and outbreak management.
Revolutionize infection control with infrared spectroscopy
Looking to enhance your infection control protocols and microbial surveillance with high-throughput precision?
The Bruker IR Biotyper® harnesses the power of Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy to deliver rapid, reproducible strain typing of microorganisms—helping laboratory professionals streamline outbreak detection, hygiene monitoring, and epidemiological investigations.
What you’ll learn:
- How the IR Biotyper supports real-time transmission route tracking
- Overview of the fast, user-friendly sample-to-result workflow
- Performance details of the FT-IR spectrometer and accessory kits
- Use cases for strain classification, pattern analysis, and surveillance
Ideal for:
Clinical microbiologists, infection control specialists, and laboratory scientists involved in microbial typing and outbreak investigations.
IR Biotyper: Microbial discrimination for real-time quality control and source tracking
As the global food chain increases in complexity, so too does the need for rapid, reliable and accurate testing. With food product safety high on every national agenda, easily accessible, failsafe quality control is essential. Microbial strain typing for source tracking and quality control is an essential step in maintaining food product safety. In this application note, Bruker introduces its Fourier transform-infra-red (FT-IR) spectroscopy system, the IR Biotyper®. The IR Biotyper uses infrared spectroscopy to classify microorganisms based on their ‘molecular fingerprint’, starting with colony material. It offers an easy-to-use method for fast and effective microorganism strain typing, with a simple workflow that needs minimal operator training.
Expert Insights: Expanding the applications of the IR Biotyper in the hospital
Efficient microorganism strain typing is vital in healthcare settings, for infection control, epidemiological studies, and to better understand the causes of infection. Traditional strain typing technologies like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multi-locus sequence typing, latex agglutination and whole-genome sequencing are time-consuming and resource-intensive, and not always readily available in every microbiological lab. In contrast, IR-based strain typing is easy to carry out and takes just three hours from harvesting to result, for 30 samples (a single sample can be analyzed in approx. 30 min). In this application note, Bruker presents expert insights on how the IR Biotyper® has been utilized in a hospital setting. Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA, have used their Bruker IR Biotyper to support to assist in epidemiological surveillance cases for a range of pathogens, and also to develop predictive trend analysis for emerging microorganisms such as Candida auris.
Analysis of an outbreak of VIM-producing Citrobacter freundii by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy using the IR Biotyper system
In this application note, Bruker presents an analysis of an outbreak of Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase (VIM)-producing Citrobacter freundii by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy using the IR Biotyper® system. VIM is one of the ‘Big Five’ carbapenemases, together with Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC), imipenemase (IMP), New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM), and class D oxacillinase-48 (OXA-48) family. The IR Biotyper proved to be an effective tool to investigate clonal relationships between different C. freundii isolates, providing results consistent with the reference DNA-based methods.
Invisible enemies: Revolutionizing infection control and microbial identification
June 13, 2025 - 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT
Detect invisible enemies with speed and precision to enhance infection control in your healthcare institution.
Infection control prevents or stops the spread of infections in healthcare settings. The Bruker IR Biotyper, using Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, can differentiate microorganisms on the strain level, supporting infection control practices and timely data results.
Join Dr. Philip Jessmon as he demonstrates the value of the IR Biotyper technology along with the complementary MALDI Biotyper technology for rapid microorganism identification.
Key learning objectives:
- Summarize the impact on hospital hygiene for receiving rapid microbial results
- Identify how Fourier Transform-Infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy technology is used for outbreak identification
- Assess how an FT-IR solution impacts infection control and prevention
Who should attend?
- Clinical microbiologists
- Lab directors, managers, supervisors and technicians
- Hospital administrators
- Epidemiologists
- Infection prevention specialists
- Infection control nurses
- Infection preventionists
- Infectious disease doctors
- Research or clinical PhDs
- Certified infection control (CIC) credentialed people
- Public health laboratory technicians
- Directors/Managers/Supervisors
- AMR stewardship committee members
Certificate of attendance
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If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.
MALDI-TOF and FT-IR technologies provide a game-changing approach to infection control at the University Hospital Heidelberg
Dr. Stefan Zimmermann, Head of Bacteriology at the University Hospital Heidelberg, discusses cutting-edge developments in spectroscopy-based technologies aimed at improving infection control. From pioneering MALDI-TOF applications to leveraging the Bruker IR Biotyper®, powered by FT-IR spectroscopy, and its IR Tracker™ software feature, Zimmermann highlights how these innovations simplify microbial strain analysis, enhance outbreak detection, and accelerate decision-making in hospital hygiene. By integrating machine learning and phenotypic profiling, the IR Biotyper® provides rapid, cost-effective insights, offering a promising solution for combating healthcare associated infections (HAIs), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and refining microbiology in the hospital environment. These advancements could revolutionize infection control worldwide.
SelectScience interview filmed at ESCMID Global 2025 in Vienna, Austria.
Efficient microbial strain typing for real-time epidemiological surveillance
The IR Biotyper has been designed to advance infection control and prevention in hospital settings. Discover the unique advantages of the IR Biotyper and learn how it sets itself apart from traditional strain typing methods. Dr. Markus Meyer, Head of the Business Unit for Hygiene/Epidemiology at Bruker Microbiology & Infection Diagnostics (BMID), discusses real-world applications on how the IR Biotyper contributes to proactive monitoring, outbreak identification, and tracking of resistant microbes, ensuring a safer healthcare environment.
Take a look at the IR Biotyper workflow, from sample to result, and see how machine learning enhances its capabilities. Plus, gain valuable insights into future developments and enhancements envisioned for the IR Biotyper, keeping healthcare professionals ahead of the curve.
The role of syndromic testing in advancing gastroenteritis diagnosis
In this guest editorial, Dr. Anurag Singh discusses gastroenteritis diagnosis and how syndromic testing is establishing its role in the future of infectious disease management
