User manual

VITEK
®
2 Instrument User Manual Glossary-1
510731-10EN1
GLOSSARY
Access Doors VITEK
®
2 VITEK
®
2 has six doors to enable the operator to access the
internal systems and stations to replenish supplies and
perform maintenance and cleaning procedures: top access
door, saline access door, front access door, bottom access
door, cassette load (and unload) door, and waste collection
access door.
Access Doors VITEK
®
2
XL
VITEK
®
2 XL has nine doors to enable the operator to access
the internal systems and stations to replenish supplies and
perform maintenance and cleaning procedures: top access
door section A, top access door section B, saline access door,
front access door, front center sliding door, bottom access
door, cassette load (and unload) door, and 2 waste collection
access doors.
Accession/Lab ID The Accession ID is a unique identifier that associates a
patient culture to a test card in the VITEK
®
2 system. The
Accession ID, which can contain up to 20 alphanumeric
characters, is followed by a dash and a single-digit isolate
number. Accession ID is the same as Lab ID.
Accessory Kit Supplied by bioMérieux, the accessory kit contains the tubing,
disk filter, and shot tube for the Dispenser station, and a
container of pipette tubes.
Aliquot A calculated unit of saline (see Dispenser/Pipettor) used with
the organism culture to inoculate into the test card.
Antimicrobial
Susceptibility Testing
(AST)
Testing the susceptibility of certain bacteria to known antibiotic
concentrations. VITEK
®
2 helps the diagnostician determine
the best medical treatment for the patient’s specific strain of
microorganism tested.
Analytical System Located in a portion of the instrument called the Reader/
Incubator station, it consists of the carousel, and two optics
systems. The transmittance optics system indirectly measures
organism growth as a function of decreasing light
transmittance.
Automatic Dilution
Mode
One of two possible settings for the Dilution Mode
configuration on the VITEK
®
2 instrument. In Automatic
Dilution mode, AST suspensions are diluted by VITEK
®
2. In
Pre-diluted mode, the user prepares AST suspensions prior to
loading test cards on the instrument.