These are equipment that are responsible for the determination of organisms that are present in blood, sputum, body fluid etc when other methods of determination are being exhausted
there are different types of microbiological equipment;
we have equipment for blood culture i.e detection of growth in a sample
equipment to detect the kind/actual organism found in particular test
we also have fluid culture and sputum kind of detection system
usually a manual method will take minimum of 7days to achieve but the automated method takes hours