Evaluation of the Recovery Rate of Different Swabs for Microbial Environmental Monitoring

Marcel Goverde; Julian Willrodt; Alexandra Staerk

doi:10.5731/pdajpst.2016.006783

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Evaluation of the Recovery Rate of Different Swabs for Microbial Environmental Monitoring

Marcel Goverde, Julian Willrodt and Alexandra Staerk

PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology January 2017, 71 (1) 33-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5731/pdajpst.2016.006783

Marcel Goverde

aMGP Consulting GmbH, Binningen, Switzerland and

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bMicrobiological Quality Control Unit, Novartis Pharma Stein AG, Switzerland

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Marcel Goverdea,¹,
Julian Willrodtb,² and
Alexandra Staerkb,³

^aMGP Consulting GmbH, Binningen, Switzerland and
^bMicrobiological Quality Control Unit, Novartis Pharma Stein AG, Switzerland

↵1Corresponding Author: MGP Consulting GmbH, Melchtalstrassse 21, CH-4102 Binningen, Switzerland; Telephone: +41 79 820 85 66; e-mail: goverde{at}mgp-consulting.ch.

↵2 Current Address: Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075 Göttingen; e-mail: julian.willrodt{at}gmx.de.

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