ASTar™ System

Achieve comprehensive antimicrobial sensitivity testing (AST) and reporting from positive blood culture within ∼6 hours with fully automated Q-linea ASTar™ System.

Proactively manage infection in critically ill patients by gaining early antimicrobial susceptibility data that supports timely and effective stewardship efforts.

Support the delivery of optimized treatment decisions by providing sensitivity testing results covering a broad range of antimicrobials,  for both fastidious and non-fastidious pathogens, using the ASTar™ System.

• Extensive AST Panel: each testing disc has over 330 wells available for antimicrobials, covering both fastidious and non-fastidious pathogens.
• Fully Automated: designed to deliver user-friendly random-access loading and processing of up to 12 samples at a time, each requiring less than a minute of hands-on time.
• True MIC Results: integrates broth microdilution, the standard method used in most reference laboratories around the world², to provide true MIC results based on EUCAST breakpoints, incorporating the respective expert rules, to guide interpretations.

The ASTar Instrument is an in vitro diagnostic medical device for performing quantitative determination of antimicrobial susceptibility.

Test results are an aid in the determination of antimicrobial agents of choice to treat patients with bacteremia in conjunction with other clinical and laboratory findings.