Laboratory Medicine ›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (7): 757-760.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2015.07.020

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Research progress on the bacterial inoculation techniques in clinical microbiology laboratories

WANG Jinghua, GE Ping, CHEN Rong, XU Rong, LIU Xuejie   

  1. Shanghai Center for Clinical Laboratory, Shanghai 200126, China
  • Received:2014-11-06 Online:2015-07-30 Published:2015-08-28

Abstract:

In recent years, researches on the bacterial inoculation automation are booming. The commercialized automatic or semi-automatic microbial inoculation instruments are developing, such as, Robobact system, EasySpiral Pro and PREVI Isola. However, the experience of clinical application indicates that no instrument employed is satisfactory, let alone the accurate quantitative inoculation instrument, and they are hard to be popularized in clinical microbiology laboratories. Meanwhile, to develop a new method of accurate quantitative determination and to unify and standardize operating procedure, is the development tendency of quality control. Based on Bernoulli principle and fluid mechanics,a new-type instrument, called the multichannel microbial inoculation instument, is invented by Chinese scholars. It is hopeful to develop a new method for the quantitative determination for microbiology based on automatic technique. In this review, the research and development progress of bacterial inoculation technique in clinical microbiology laboratories are summarized.

Key words: Inoculation technique, Clinical microbiology, Bacterial culture, Automation, Quantitative analysis

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