Stability of Currently Used Cytometers Facilitates the Identification of Pipetting Errors and Their Volumetric Operation: "Time" Can Tell All

Cytometry Part B - Clinical Cytometry

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-39

  Bergeron, M ^a   Lustyik, G ^b   Phaneuf, S ^a   Ding, T ^a   Nicholson, J K A ^c   Janossy, G ^d   Shapiro, H ^e   Barnett, D ^f   Mandy, F ^a,g  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b Soft Flow Hungary R and D Ltd   (United States)

^c NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e Royal Hallamshire Hospital ^*

^f ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g Bur HIV/AIDS STD TB LCDC HPB H   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATOR; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLOW RATE; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MICROFLUOROMETRY; PIPETTE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VOLUMETRY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

MICROSPHERE;

CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; MICROSPHERES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0042911894     PISSN: 15524949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.b.10014     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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