Copan Wasp’s approach to digitalization

Making sense of digital data

WASPLab® automation ecosystem includes several modules designed to perform specific activities with extreme reliability and minimum effort.

Our software, AI systems, and interpretation algorithms help clinicians to make the most of digital data.

The next step of our digital revolution is to provide clinicians with advanced tools to monitor and optimize processes, aggregate data, connect lab instrumentation, and help with performance benchmarking and epidemiological studies in a continuous intelligent data stream connecting preanalytical and analytical platforms.
 
 

Connection without compromise

Introducing MicroHub®

Allowing you to handle patient data, tests, results, and the entire staff workload in real-time, MicroHub® is the new revolutionary way of managing your lab.
We conceived MicroHub® as the perfect tool to integrate mass-operation features and keep the lab’s productivity under control:

• Integrate all your lab workflows into a single control HUB
• Gather LIS info and lab results to enhance data accessibility and clarity
• Cut down on time spent retrieving data from multiple platforms
• Monitor, organize, and balance your lab activities, resources, and workload
• Expedite technical and clinical validation

This modern Lab-intelligence Platform is now available: contact us for any information and discover more at the links below!

In this December’s Microbiology Time, here’s a little present for you: the top three studies of the month! Enjoy the reading, and best wishes for a very merry Christmas!

• The first study evaluates the efficiency of different swab types to collect evidence (saliva) from denim, cotton, and polyester for body fluid identification, DNA isolation, and DNA characterization. The study’s results are clear: overall, cotton swabs perform worse than 4N6FLOQSwabs. This is another piece of evidence confirming the previous research on the influence of swab types in DNA isolation and characterization, a crucial step to retrieving the appropriate evidence in forensic investigation.
• It is well-reported that reproductive tract dysbiosis reduces fertility and pregnancy outcomes. The endometrial microbiome is of particular interest, given its potential impact on embryo implantation. In this second study, Robin Vanstokstraeten and colleagues demonstrate the applicability of culturomics, a high-throughput culturing approach, to investigate the endometrial bacterial population in biopsies from 10 subfertile women. The researchers – taking advantage of WASPLab®-assisted processing to standardize the methodology – analyzed the samples with mass spectrometry and identified 83 bacterial and 2 fungal species. Of note, 53 (62.4%) of the identified species were described in the endometrial microbiota for the first time, highlighting the added value of culturomics.
• In the last paper, an epidemiological outbreak investigation was performed in a children’s hospital, after MRSA infections among children attending primary and secondary school nearly doubled in 2018 compared to previous years. Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of the isolates was performed, and a cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the outbreak’s source. 49 individuals were detected with 57 corresponding isolates, and a core cluster sharing common genetic features and a similar antimicrobial susceptibility pattern was identified. Although the epidemiologic evaluation identified a distinct school as a common risk factor, the source of the clustered infections within that school could not be further specified.

Read the complete studies below: