Comparison of the APAS Independence Automated Plate Reader System with the Manual Standard of Care for Processing Urine Culture Specimens

ABSTRACT Urine cultures are among the highest-volume tests in clinical microbiology laboratories and usually require considerable manual labor to perform. We evaluated the APAS Independence automated plate reader system and compared it to our manual standard of care (SOC) for processing urine cultur...

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Main Authors: Megan Chiu, Peiting Kuo, Khrissa Lecrone, Andrew Garcia, Ruohui Chen, Natalie E. Quach, Xin M. Tu, David T. Pride
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01442-22