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BD COR™ System enhances both laboratory outcomes and patient management with advanced molecular diagnostic capabilities.1,2
Efficiency: Designed to improve efficiency throughout the lab workflow.
The BD COR™ System simplifies and standardises user workflows and specimen management to reduce complexity, enable longer walkaway times and minimise user interventions.2,3
Complete preanalytical automation
Accepts closed BD SurePath™ and Hologic PreservCyt® LBC primary vials and BD collection tubes for IVD assays, including BD Onclarity™ Self-collection Diluent Tubes and BD Cervical Brush Diluent Tubes.
Automatically vortexes, uncaps, aliquots and recaps samples.
Performs all necessary pre-warming and cooling steps.
<15 minutes to fully load instrument for testing.
Integration
Automatically delivers samples to analysis instruments.
Bi-directional LIS interface via BD Synapsys™.
Barcoding functionality supports traceability throughout sample processing and testing.
High capacity for on board specimen storage*
Performance: Throughput to meet your daily goals.
Remote monitoring via internal cameras and built-in redundancy maximise uptime.
Multiplex PCR assay design supports accurate diagnoses, improving laboratory outcomes and patient management.
Modular and scalable to maximum throughput.
Flexibility: Adaptable to meet your laboratory’s specific needs.
Random and continuous access with ability to prioritise testing.3
Different configurations that adapt to volume needs.
Workflow can be adapted to arrival pattern, mixed sample types, differentiated shifts.
BD Synapsys™ middleware empowers bi-directional connection to LIS and constantly develops new analytical features.
BD COR™ System Products
- Enhances laboratory operations and patient management with advanced molecular diagnostics capabilities
- Delivers efficiency, flexibility and performance to meet laboratories evolving molecular diagnostic needs.
- Provides complete chain of custody and is the only high throughput fully integrated pre-analytical and analytical system on the market.
The GX Instrument is an HPV analytical instrument that automates the BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay with extended genotyping, requiring minimum interactions per shift at maximum throughput.
Minimal time at the instrument
- Less than 15 minutes to fully load instrument
- Remote system management and alert capabilities
- High capacity for reagents, consumables, samples and system waste
Extended walk-away time and maximum throughput
- Approximately 7 hours of walk-away time at maximum throughput
- Up to 180 HPV samples with extended genotyping without user intervention
- Ready-to-use barcoded reagents stored at room temperature
The PX Instrument* automates preanalytical steps to simplify and standardize workflows, reducing staff interaction and maximizing walk-away time.
Complete pre-analytic automation
- Automatically converts, vortexes, uncaps, aliquots, and recaps LBC vials
- Preforms all necessary prewarming and cooling steps
Integrated
- Automatically delivers sample to analytical instruments
- Coordinates sample batching to ensure maximum throughput without user involvement
- Barcode-drive chain of custody for full traceability and follow-up testing
High storage capacity
- 480 BD SurePath™ Liquid-based Pap Test Vials
- 2,140 BD Collection Devices for IVD Assays
- Reduces hands-on-time, which may reduce the potential for human error
The MX instrument is a molecular diagnostics analytical instrument for integrated automation of an expanding list of high-demand, essential assays in women’s health and infectious disease testing.
Maximum throughput
- Dual BD COR™ MX configuration can process 1,872 sample results in less than 24 hours
- One BD COR™ MX configuration has capacity for 17 different assays and up to 1,000 sample results with one 8-hour shift of work
- Approximately 7 hours of unimpeded system processing
Minimal system interaction and assay variety
- Assay reagents do not require reconstitution and are stored at room temperature
- Less than 15 minutes to fully load consumables
- Essential assays for sexually transmitted infections, women’s health, and other infectious diseases
Electrical requirements
| Voltage | 100-240 VAC |
| Frequency | 50-60 Hz |
| Current | Single-phase circuit 15 A |
Operating conditions
| Temperature | 18°C – 27°C / 64.4°F – 80.6°F |
| Humidity | 20% to 80% |
| Altitude | Up to 2,000 m (6,562 ft) |
| Noise metrics | < 67 dB |
Specimen handling*
| Specimen collection type | BD SurePath™ Liquid-based Pap Test Vials BD Molecular Aliquot Tubes BD Onclarity™ HPV Liquid-based Cytology (LBC) Specimen Diluent Tubes ThinPrep® PreservCyt® Solution |
| Reagent/consumable capacity | BD COR™ GX Instrument: 180 HPV tests; 1,056 tips (11 tip trays) BD COR™ PX Instrument: 35 racks; 192 tips (2 trays; buffer) |
| Waste capacity | Solid: 960 conversions (24 hours) Liquid: 2,160 tests (3 days) |
*Capacity and throughput may vary based on specimen types.
BD COR™ System Assays
The BD COR™ System automates the BD women’s health assays that were designed to address real clinical unmet needs. The range of Women’s Health assays has been designed over years, with robust research and development efforts and with demonstrated clinical precision. Learn more about BD Women’s Health Assays on BD Women's Health
The BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay is the only FDA-approved assay with extended genotyping out of either the BD SurePath™ Liquid-based Pap Test or the Hologic ThinPrep® Pap Test, positioning your laboratory at the forefront of cervical cancer screening, by enabling you to provide more actionable information to clinicians.
Find out more about how BD Onclarity™ HPV Assay is shaping the future of Women’s Health
The BD CTGCTV2 assay performed on the BD COR™ System is designed to be used with the BD Molecular specimen collection and transport devices for male and female urine, vaginal, endocervical swabs, and liquid based cytology specimens (Thinprep® PreservCyt Solution). The assay is also indicated for use with asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals to aid in the diagnosis of chlamydial urogenital disease, gonococcal urogenital disease and/or trichomoniasis.
Learn more about the BD CTGCTV2 assay and how it is shaping the future of women’s health
BD COR™ System Service Offering
BD Technical Services is your partner for performance. BD Service teams enable you to better serve your customers and patients. You can count on our deep knowledge and experience to help ensure your BD COR™ System delivers expected, timely results.
BD COR™ System Service Offering
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