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Meridian Bioscience, inc. is a fully integrated life science industry that makes, markets, and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic test kits as well as purified reagents and similar products. The 3 segments of Meridian include: the European diagnostics, United States diagnostics, and life science. The European diagnostic segment markets and distributes diagnostic test kits made by the U.S diagnostic operating segment and others in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. The U.S. diagnostics segment produces, manufactures, markets, and distributes diagnostic test kits for certain types of gastrointestinal, viral, respiratory and parasitic infectious diseases. Meridian products also include transport media that keep and preserve specimen samples from individual collection to laboratory testing. The final company’s segment is: the life science that produces, manufactures, markets, and distributes reagents and bulk antigens, which used by scientists and other diagnostic laboratories, as well as the contract producing of proteins and other biologicals used by biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries. Meridian products are used outside of human body and require no special equipment and are designed to enhance people’s well-being while lowering the total outcome cost. The company’s shares are traded on NASDAQ under the symbol VIVO. Meridian distributes its products to research centers, hospitals, physician offices, reference laboratories and veterinary testing centers. Meridian was established in 1976 and is located in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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