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Laboratory RoboticsAutomation of AMPLICOR PCR using the Tecan Miniprep 75[The following is a presentation given
by Dr Jim Guthrie at IUSTI-Europe in Vienna, September 2002. Many thanks to Dr
Guthrie, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland, for permission to
reproduce it here. The problem was how to meet the screening strategy envisaged
by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, 2000. The
presentation illustrates how laboratory robotics can be used to minimise the
processing associated with nucleic acid based amplification assays; in this case
the the Roche AMPLICOR® PCR. This can be achieved either by using
automated assay equipment specified by the test manufacturer or, with a bit of
ingenuity as here, by the adaptation of existing programmable equipment. Of
course the objective of automation is to achieve higher, consistent specimen
throughput and as exemplified in Fig 22, to leave the laboratory worker
with time for the newspaper
Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network: Management
of genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection. March 2000. Quick
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