Clinical laboratories are constantly facing challenges to do more with less, enhance quality, improve test turnaround time, and reduce operational expenses. Experience with adopting and applying lean concepts and tools used extensively in the manufacturing industry is described for a high-volume clinical molecular microbiology laboratory, illustrating how operational success and benefits can be achieved.
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Pathogens
August 2020
Department Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Detection and enumeration of in water samples is of great importance for risk assessment analysis. The plate culture method is the gold standard, but has received several well-known criticisms, which have induced researchers to develop alternative methods. The purpose of this study was to compare counts obtained by the analysis of potable water samples through the plate culture method and through the IDEXX liquid culture Legiolert method.
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