Bacterial Contamination of QC Specimens as a Cause of Artefactually Poor Performance in the UK EQAS
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
- Vol. 24 (2) , 182-184
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000456328702400210
Abstract
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.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A Standardised Multicentre Procedure for Plasma Gonadotrophin RadioimmunoassayAnnals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 1982