Method and apparatus for automatically inoculating culture media with bacterial specimens from specimen containers
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Sep 9, 2003
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Dec 9, 1999
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Mar 17, 1997
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A method and system are provided for automatically positioning specimen containers and culture medium containers and transferring specimen samples from the containers to the culture medium. The samples are positioned at predetermined locations, and a sample is automatically streaked in a pattern on the culture medium after deposition of the sample. A means is also provided for establishing the predetermined locations by recording a position of a deposit location in a memory as deposit location data. Biological specimens such as a sample of bacteria are used in the method and system.
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