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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Microbiol Methods. 2018 Apr 18;148:174–180. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2018.03.021

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Akonni’s TruTip Automated Workstation includes: an external magnet used for sample homogenization and cell lysis, a pipetting manifold, and an air pump (not shown). The consumables consist of lysis tubes that include a stir disk in a tube of glass beads, a reagent plate containing all necessary liquid reagents for extraction, and TruTips, which include a porous glass binding matrix inside of a standard pipette tip.