What do I need that isn’t in the box?

  • Refrigerator at 2-8°C
  • Deionised or distilled water
  • Growth media
    • Solus One Listeria
      • SOLO+
    • Solus Listeria
      • Half-Fraser broth
      • Fraser broth
      • RELM selective broth
    • Solus Salmonella
      • Buffered Peptone Water
      • Rappaport-Vassiliadis Soya (RVS) broth (we recommend Solus RVS as it was specially developed and optimised for the Solus system)
    • Measuring cylinder for 250ml or 1L
    • Sterile 10ml test tubes suitable for selective enrichment culture
    • Stomacher (or similar apparatus) and bags
    • 3ml transfer pipettes (sterile)
    • Test Tube for sample boiling (e.g. 5ml Polypropylene rimless test tubes 13x75mm*)
    • 25ml universal tubes for reagents*
    • 3ml tubes for controls*
    • Vortex mixer
    • Timer
    • Incubator at 37±1°C
    • Incubator at 30±1°C
    • Water bath or heating block (capable of heating to 85- 100°C)
    • Pipettes and tips (1ml; 0.1ml)
    • Microplate washer or squeeze bottle
    • Microplate reader with 450 nm filter
    • Autoclave for decontamination of samples

*These can be supplied by Solus as part of our automated system.

This list is for running manual ELISAs. Please see our Solus DS2 information to see if automation may be the best option for you.