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Susan M Novak1, Elizabeth M Marlowe

  • 1Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Regional Reference Laboratories, 11668 Sherman Way, North Hollywood, CA, USA. susan.m.novak@kp.org

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|August 13, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Clinical microbiologyEfficiencyPreanalytical automationQualityTotal laboratory automation

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