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. 2007 Sep 19;45(11):3737–3742. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01243-07

TABLE 5.

Cost comparison in U.S. dollars of the molecular biological analysis system and that of the proposed system

Item Molecular biological analysis
Proposed biological identification system
Cost per test Total costa Cost per test Total costa
CHROM 2.00 566 2.00 566
Molecular biological analysis 25.00 9,425 0 0
3% hydrogen peroxideb 0 0 0.417 0.0264
SDA slant 0 0 0.417 157.2
TE slant 0 0 0.417 157.2
Total 27.0 9,991 3.251 880
a

During the present study.

b

Catalase test.