Functional sensitivity, imprecision, linearity and comparison studies were performed on peritoneal fluids.
Total imprecision was 1.6-4.7 % , functional sensitivity 27/¦ÌL for white blood cell (WBC) and 32/¦ÌL for total nucleated cell (TNC) count. Linearity was excellent up to 983 cell/¦ÌL, carry-over < 0.2 % , correlation with manual microscopy always greater than 0.992.
The instrument exhibited optimal performance at the conventional WBC diagnostic thresholds.