Monthly Archives: December 2019

Thank you for trusting Sterlitech for your laboratory and research needs. As 2019 comes to a close, we hope we’ve served you well in transforming your ideas into reality, and we look forward to the upcoming year. 

To give our employees time off to enjoy the holiday season, Sterlitech will be closed on the following dates:

• December 24 and 25, 2019: Christmas Holiday
• December 31, 2019: New Year’s Eve
• January 01, 2020: New Year’s Day

We like to remind our customers to be careful when feeding chemical solutions into their Membrane Filtration Systems. Ensuring that the chemical solutions are compatible with the wetted parts of these filtration systems or membranes will help you achieve consistent results and lengthen the service life of your systems to support future experiments.

We understand that assessing chemical compatibility is not easy as varying concentrations of the same solution can affect the wetted parts differently. To help you with this task, we’ve prepared a reference table outlining the compatibility of more than 80 chemical solutions to the materials found in the wetted parts of our systems. This should help determine whether any adjustments to your experiments are necessary to yield the best results.

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Adult patients suspected of HIV infection can be quickly diagnosed with rapid test kits, enabling them to immediately start antiretroviral treatment. However, infants, the most vulnerable demographic, do not have this same privilege. Rapid test kits are unreliable for infant diagnosis until they reach 18-months of age. ^[1] In place of rapid test kits, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends early infant diagnosis (EID) through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods to detect the virus through its genetic material. ^[2] However, the complexities of this method resulted in high turnaround times and loss of follow-ups which hindered its efficacy in diagnosing infants, especially those living