Improving clinical laboratory efficiency: A time-motion evaluation of the Abbott m2000 RealTime and Roche COBAS AmpliPrep/COBAS TaqMan PCR systems for the simultaneous quantitation of HIV-1 RNA and HCV RNA

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1283-1288

  Amendola, Alessandra ^a   Coen, Sabrina ^a   Belladonna, Stefano ^b   Pulvirenti, F Renato ^b   Clemens, John M ^c   Capobianchi, M Rosaria ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b ABBOTT DIAGNOSTICS   (Italy)

^c Abbott Molecular Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

HCV; HIV 1; molecular workflow; polymerase chain reaction; time motion studies

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

HEPACIVIRUS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; RNA, VIRAL; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 80051728335     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.625     Document Type: Article

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