Reduction of Carry over in Liquid-Handling Systems with a Decontamination Step Integrated in the Washing Procedure

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 379-389

  Iten, Miriam ^a   Weibel, Roland ^a   König, Iwo ^a   Beckbissinger, Rainer ^b   Benthien, Thomas ^c   Hälg, Werner ^d   Ingenhoven, Nikolaus ^d   Lehnert, Angela ^e   Oeltjen, Lars ^b   Zaborosch, Christiane ^a  

^a ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^b Hamilton Bonaduz AG   (Switzerland)

^c Surface Contacts GmbH   (Germany)

^d Tecan Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

^e Sias AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

carry over; cross contamination; decontamination; hypochlorite; liquid handling; washing station

Indexed keywords

ANALYTE CONCENTRATION; ANALYTES; CARRY OVER; CROSS CONTAMINATION; DECONTAMINATION SOLUTION; HANDLING SYSTEMS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HUMAN SERUM; HYPOCHLORITE; LIQUID HANDLING; SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE SOLUTION; TARGET LEVELS; TEST PROCEDURES; WASHING PROCEDURES; WASHING SOLUTION;

CONTAMINATION; DECONTAMINATION; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; PROTEINS; SODIUM; TESTING; WASHING;

LIQUIDS;

FLUORESCEIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; GLYCOSYLATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LIQUID; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSMOSIS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STANDARDIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77956875833     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 15402452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jala.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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