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The challenge of COVID-19 for a Clinical Microbiology Department

Objectives: To quantify the workload and cost overload that the COVID-19 pandemic has meant for a Clinical Microbiology laboratory in a real-life scenario. Methods: We compared the number of samples received, their distribution, the human resources, and the budget of a Microbiology laboratory in the...

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Autores principales:	Catalán, Pilar, Alonso, Roberto, Alcalá, Luís, Marín, Mercedes, Moure, Zaira, Pescador, Paula, Bouza, Emilio, Muñoz, Patricia
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Elsevier Inc. 2021
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8117483/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34217111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115426

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