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30/06/20

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Originally posted by Heloise: ↑

I have been following LBT for over a year now, automated agar plate screening is a great idea with practical time-saving benefits for microbiologists in the lab. However, as far as I am aware the technology is being used very specifically at the moment I.e. in diagnosing Staphaureus colonies in a plating as the first step in determining if it is a multi-resistant strain (MRSA). I was a little disappointed to read that the time saved for technologists was estimated to be around 10%, which seemed to be pretty low to me. The paper stated that the APAS machine was screening 200 plates/hour which is about 3-4 plates per minute and is faster than a trained microbiologist but not by a great deal. I would expect that LBT will be working towards speeding up the process of screening.

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Appreciate your response Heloise as some good points you've made etc.

Perhaps check out 30/06/20 3:47pm Announcement
Results of Evaluation of APAS Independence by Johns Hopkins stating APAS as being 100% efficient/accurate (it actually picked up on 3 'positive' cases that were misdiagnosed by Microbiologists altogether).

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