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Automation means the use/introduction of automatic machines or equipment in a manufacturing or work process, e.g. automated plate streakers and specimen processors including complete solution for laboratory-based automation. Automation has been applied in clinical haematology and chemistry-related arenas of diagnostic labs, but in the case of microbiological labs, this privilege has not been commonly observed. However, in few areas of clinical microbiology, e.g. identification of microbes, blood culturing systems with automated continuous monitoring and also anti-microbial resistance/susceptibility tests are being routinely used for microbiological labs, mainly for processing specimens or culturing them. The below listed reasons limit the application of automation to microbiology labs.
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Mandal, S.M., Paul, D. (2022). Automation in Medical Microbiology. In: Automation and Basic Techniques in Medical Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2372-5_2
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