Field safety notices released by manufacturers in cases of failure of products for infection testing: analysis of cases reported to the BfArM between 2005 and 2007

Table 2 Analysers and their general consumables included into the study (n = 20).

	Product based on cultural or biochemical methods or staining¹	Product based onmolecular biological methods²	Total no. of products
Analyser	8	5	13
Consumable	5	2	7
Total no. of products	13	7	20

¹e.g., culture, strain differentiation, susceptibility testing, or staining; ²e.g., polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or hybridisation assays.

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