Laboratory tool for bacterial identification. ABIS online.

ABIS online - Advanced Bacterial Identification Software is a laboratory tool for bacterial identification, based on morpho-biochemical characters, cultural characteristics, growth conditions, ecology & pathogenicity data. The program allows a great flexibility in choosing biochemical tests and is an alternative to commercial systems, code-books or identification tables.

The software is linked with a germs Encyclopedia, the Kauffman-White scheme for Salmonella serovars identification, Lancefield grouping for streptococci and an antibiogram interpreter.

Main identifiable taxa: Enterobacteriaceae, Pasteurellaceae, Campylobacteraceae, Bacillaceae, Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Clostridium, Vibrio, Listeria, Erysipelothrix, Corynebacterium, Neisseria, Chromobacterium, Aeromonas, Alcaligenaceae, Pseudomonas and related species. More than 1600 species are included in databases and in bacterial encyclopedia.