Evaluation of two automated systems for detection of bacteriuria.
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The Utiscreen-CORAL Biomedical system and ROBOBACT system were tested against conventional uroculture in blood agar and MacConkey agar as a reference method to determine the bacteriuria from 400 samples. For the Utiscreen-CORAL Biomedical system, a sensitivity of 92.5% was obtained. However, by the ROBOBACT system, the sensitivity was 69.9%.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical laboratory analysis
دوره 20 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006