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What is your sample?  Biopsy?  Some sort of culture?  How do you know  
the things you are looking at are Mycobacteria?  FISH? Antibody?  Is  
this a standard diagnostic technique that you are trying to automate -  
if so, you can disregard my questions.

On Mar 8, 2013, at 1:53 AM, Pascal Weber wrote:

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> My problem is:
> The diagnostic Turberculosis. For this, the system must be able to  
> fully motorized
> and several blades without human intervention.
> For this I have four well slide where I do 40 fields at 40X dry,  
> automatically
> detect bacteria, transferring data in Excel and tell me if the blade  
> is positive or
> negative. I ran in a first time focus and retain, or regain, when  
> the microscope
> slide changes.
> Thank you very much for these first answers.

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