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Diagnostics

RTI conducts routine and customized testing across a breadth of sectors and matrices (See Below), with additional areas of microbial challenge testing, shelf life, efficacy, MICs, anaerobic culture, and more.

Within the mycology sector, our services also include yeast and mold counts with identification.  The bacteriology group performs work for veterinary, industrial/commercial, and food microbiologic endpoints.  Methods in practice are FDA-BAM, AOAC, USP, ISO, CMMEF, and more.

For inquiries, please contact Sonja at RTI at [email protected]

Food Safety Testing - FDA- BAM, AOAC, ISO, CMMEF Methods

Pathogen and spoilage organism detection

Assay formats can manage several matrices, with outputs of positive/negative and enumeration (CFU/ml) for the following organisms:

               Bacillus cereus        Campylobacter sp.        Clostridium perfringens        Coliforms

               Cronobacter sakazakii        E. coli        E. coli 0157        Enterobacteriaceae

               Lactobacillus sp.        Listeria sp.        Listeria monocytogenes        Mold and Yeast

               Pseudomonas        Salmonella        Shigella        Staphylococcus aureus

               Streptococcus/Enterococcus        Sulfite Reducers        Total Aerobic Count              

               Vibrio

Milk Quality Tests

                Bedding Cultures        Bulk Tank Cultures        Coliform Counts       

                Mastitis Cultures        Milk Mycoplasma Cultures        Sanitation Screen       

                ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Standard Plate Counts         Staphylococcus aureus        Susceptibility Testing

Environmental and Air Quality Tests

               Media Fill Testing incubation and reading        Media qualification

               Microbial enumeration        Microbial IDs        Plate incubation

Ethanol Microbial Tests

               Lactic Acid Bacterial Counts and IDs        Yeast Counts

Bacteria and Virus Testing in Health and Disease

The pre-clinical laboratory group and the diagnostic laboratory group are highly skilled and experienced in detecting, isolating, and identifying both viral and bacterial organisms and pathogens across species and matrices, from nasal, fecal, milk, urine, blood, and a host of sample types.  Assays are conducted to quality standards no differently than other sectors and routinely meet both ISO 17025, GLP, GCP, and other GDocP regulatory guidelines.

These tests are rapid and supportive for both study service support as well as clients in the field, such as veterinarians and producers managing emerging disease in their animals.

Examples of testing and client support we provide are:

Mastitis and udder health testing

Milk Quality and food product testing

Respiratory, urinary, skin, gastrointestinal, and other various systems affected by infectious diseases

Seed Health Tests - NSHS and ISTA Methods

               Bacterial Cultures        Fungal Cultures       Nematodes

               Seed Biologics Shelf Life and Formulation Testing       Seed Wash Testing        

Aquaculture

               Aeromonas        Heterotrophic Counts        Probiotics        Pseudomonas

               Shigella        Vibrio

Specialized Projects

Along with our turn-key services and organism testing, we also have the capability to conduct specialized services, performing analyses on instruments like our Vidas 30 and anaerobic chamber.  If you have unique needs, please reach out for a discussion on how we can assist you.  

Our specialty projects offer a wealth of options to our clients, including but not limited to:

  • Efficacy
  • Susceptibility
  • Agglutination
  • Shelf Life
  • Microbial challenge 
  • And, perhaps most importantly, custom design!

If you are not sure yet quite how to proceed, we would love to use our years of expertise to help develop an individualized diagnostic strategy that harmonizes with your requirements.

Bioanalytical and Research Assays

RTI Research Labs provide expertise, equipment and in-house capability in a broad number of assays and formats including:

  • Assay Development and Validation
    • Immunofluorescence assays 
    • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
  • Virology
    • Virus isolation and identification
    • Virus propagation and maintenance 
  • Microbiology
    • Aerobic and anaerobic culturing
    • Isolation and identification
    • Propagation and maintenance
    • Agglutination
    • Kirby-Bauer susceptibility
    • Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) susceptibility testing
  • Immunology
    • Flow cytometry
    • Cytokine analysis
    • Lymphocyte proliferation
    • Cytotoxicity/Cell viability
  • Molecular Biology
  • Hematology
    • Complete Blood Counts (CBCs)
    • Slide differentials
  • Serology
    • Serum neutralization