1. Antimicrobial susceptibility assays in paper-based portable culture devices
- Author
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Maribel E. Funes-Huacca, Frédérique Deiss, Ratmir Derda, Jasmin Bal, and Katrina F. Tjhung
- Subjects
Paper ,Salmonella typhimurium ,Salmonella ,biology ,medicine.drug_class ,Point-of-Care Systems ,Antibiotics ,Biomedical Engineering ,Antimicrobial susceptibility ,Bioengineering ,General Chemistry ,Paper based ,Tetracycline ,medicine.disease_cause ,biology.organism_classification ,Biochemistry ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Microbiology ,Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests ,Escherichia coli ,medicine ,Ampicillin ,Bacteria - Abstract
To detect antibiotic-resistant bacteria in areas remote from microbiology laboratories, we designed portable culture devices performing an analogue of the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion test inside patterned papers embedded in tape. We quantified the antibiotic susceptibility of several strains of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium by measuring blue-colored zones of inhibited growth.
- Published
- 2014