Safety of laboratory analyzers for infection testing - results of the market surveillance by the BfArM until end 2007

Table 4 Notification regarding analyzers and consumables for diagnostics of infective diseases based on different analytical principles since begin 1999 until end of 2007.

Affected product	Product based on cultural or biochemical methods¹	Product based on immunological methods²	Product based on molecular biological methods³	Total Number of products
	n	n	n	n
Analyzers	9	36	10	55
Consumables	8	6	4	18
Total number of products	17	42	14	73

¹e.g., culture, strain differentiation, susceptibility testing; ²e.g., immunological typing of strains, serology, ELISA, Western blot; ³e.g., PCR, hybridisation assay

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