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Total Laboratory Automation for Rapid Detection and Identification of Microorganisms and Their Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles

Publication date2022-02-03
First online date2022-02-03
Abstract

At a time when diagnostic bacteriological testing procedures have become more complex and their associated costs are steadily increasing, the expected benefits of Total laboratory automation (TLA) cannot just be a simple transposition of the traditional manual procedures used to process clinical specimens. In contrast, automation should drive a fundamental change in the laboratory workflow and prompt users to reconsider all the approaches currently used in the diagnostic work-up including the accurate identification of pathogens and the antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods. This review describes the impact of TLA in the laboratory efficiency improvement, as well as a new fully automated solution for AST by disk diffusion testing, and summarizes the evidence that implementing these methods can impact clinical outcomes.

Keywords
  • Colibri
  • Copan
  • Radian
  • WASPLab artificial intelligence
  • WASPLab® platform
  • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing
  • Total laboratory automation
Citation (ISO format)
CHERKAOUI, Abdessalam, SCHRENZEL, Jacques. Total Laboratory Automation for Rapid Detection and Identification of Microorganisms and Their Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles. In: Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2022, vol. 12, p. 807668. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.807668
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