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Total lab automation automates inoculation, incubation and analysis of human specimens. It enables the laboratory to shorten incubation times and significantly reduce the time to report. It improves the quality of microbiologic analysis by increasing the number of grown organisms. In the future it will enable automatic reading and fully automated identification and susceptibility testing of bacteria.
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Irene Burckhardt Jahrgang 1972. Medizinstudium im München. 2000 Promotion. 2005 Fachärztin für Mikrobiologie, Virologie und Infektionsepidemiologie. 2015 Venia legendi, Universität Heidelberg. 2019 außerplanmäßige Professorin, Universität Heidelberg.
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Burckhardt, I. Zu einer schnelleren und besseren individualisierten Diagnostik. Biospektrum 25, 620–623 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12268-019-0204-1
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