Research progress on the bacterial inoculation techniques in clinical microbiology laboratories
In recent years , researches on the bacterial inoculation automation are booming .The commercialized automatic or semi-automatic microbial inoculation instruments are developing , such as, Robobact system , EasySpiral Pro and PREVI Isola.However, the experience of clinical application indicates that no instrument employed is satisfactory , let alone the accurate quantitative inoculation instrument , and they are hard to be popularized in clinical microbiology laboratories.Meanwhile, to develop a new method of accurate quantitative determination and to unify and standardize operating procedure , is the development tendency of quality control .Based on Bernoulli principle and fluid mechanics , a new-type instrument , called the multichannel microbial inoculation instument , is invented by Chinese scholars .It is hopeful to develop a new method for the quantitative determination for microbiology based on automatic technique .In this review, the research and development progress of bacterial inoculation technique in clinical microbiology laboratories are summarized.