Freeze-Dryer

我们是来自猪传染病研究小组和蒙大略省医学会加拿大牛乳房炎研究网络的调查人员。我们研究一些微生物，细菌，是如何在动物和人类中引起疾病的。我们研究细菌，如大肠杆菌、猪链球菌、产气荚膜梭菌和金黄色葡萄球菌。我们正在发现这些微生物用来引发疾病的武器，并了解它们是如何工作的。这项研究导致了新的诊断工具和控制感染的新策略(如药物或疫苗)。我们正在使用和维护大量动物来源的细菌病原体。冷冻干燥可以长期安全地储存这些细菌病原体。我们要求的这台新的冷冻干燥机是为了取代目前在1987年购买的那台。我们目前的冻干机已经到了生命周期的尽头，没有更多的备件可用来修复它。此外，在我们的校园里没有其他这样的仪器。推迟更换设备将使医学会内所有研究项目的所有细菌菌株和突变株的保护工作暂停。丢失珍贵而独特的生物材料的风险将很高。因此，迫切需要替换它。该设备将由大量研究人员和他们的学员使用。

We are investigators from the Research Group on Infectious Diseases of Swine and from the Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network of the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire of Université de Montréal. We study how some microbes, bacteria, cause diseases in animals and humans. We study bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Streptococcus suis, Clostridium perfringens and Staphylococcus aureus. We are discovering the weapons that these microbes use to cause diseases and learning how they work. This research leads to new diagnostic tools and new strategies to control infection (such as drugs or vaccines). We are using and maintaining a huge collection of bacterial pathogens of animal origin. Freeze-drying allows for long-term and safe storage of these bacterial pathogens. This new freeze dryer we are requesting is to replace the current one bought in 1987. Our current freeze dryer has reached its end-life cycle and there are no more spare parts available to fix it. Furthermore, there is no other instrument like this on our campus. A delay in replacing the equipment would suspend all bacterial strains and mutants safeguarding for all research projects within the Faculté de médecine vétérinaire. There will be a high risk of loosing valuable and unique biological materials. There is therefore an urgent need to replace it. This equipment will be used by a large number of researchers and their trainees.