Bacterial Contamination of QC Specimens as a Cause of Artefactually Poor Performance in the UK EQAS

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry - Tập 24 Số 2 - Trang 182-184 - 1987
LaKeta Kemp, K M Ferguson1, S.L. Jeffcoate1
1Chelsea Hospital for Women, London SW3 6LT, UK

Tóm tắt

During 1984–85, users of a solid-phase radioimmunoassay kit for LH and FSH had problems of both variability and bias in the assay of some EQAS specimens despite adequate internal QC. The cause has been identified as contamination of these specimens with Pseudomonas fluorescens.

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10.1177/000456328201900507