Copan WASPLab automation significantly reduces incubation times and allows earlier culture readings

Cherkaoui, Abdessalam; Renzi, Gesuele; Vuilleumier, Nicolas; Schrenzel, Jacques

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2019.04.001

Scientific article

English

Copan WASPLab automation significantly reduces incubation times and allows earlier culture readings

ContributorsCherkaoui, Abdessalam; Renzi, Gesuele; Vuilleumier, Nicolas; Schrenzel, Jacques

Published inClinical Microbiology and Infection, vol. 25, no. 11, p. 1430.e5-1430.e12

Publication date2019

Abstract

Objective: The aim was to evaluate whether laboratory automation (inoculation and automated incubation combined with timely defined high-resolution digital imaging) may help reduce the time required to obtain reliable culture analysis results.

Keywords

CPE
Copan WASPLab
ESBL
Genital tract specimens
MRSA
MSSA
Non-sterile site specimens
Turn-around time

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

Research group

Citation (ISO format)

CHERKAOUI, Abdessalam et al. Copan WASPLab automation significantly reduces incubation times and allows earlier culture readings. In: Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2019, vol. 25, n° 11, p. 1430.e5–1430.e12. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.04.001

Article (Published version)

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PID : unige:140160
DOI : 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.04.001
PMID : 30986560

Commercial URLhttps://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1198743X19301521

ISSN of the journal1198-743X

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Copan WASPLab automation significantly reduces incubation times and allows earlier culture readings

Objective: The aim was to evaluate whether laboratory automation (inoculation and automated incubation combined with timely defined high-resolution digital imaging) may help reduce the time required to obtain reliable culture analysis results.

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