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- Iyengar, Sharath Narayana, et al.
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High throughput separation of bacteria from blood for sepsis diagnostics using extended elasto-inertial microfluidics
- 2019
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Ingår i: 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2019. - : Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society. ; , s. 590-591
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Separation of bacteria from blood for sepsis diagnostics has received substantial interest due to lack of high throughput alternatives. Here, we introduce extended elasto-inertial microfluidics based high throughput (1 mL/min) separation of bacteria from whole blood. We demonstrate separation of E.coli from 1 mL of whole blood in 40 min using a single spiral chip with 90% separation efficiency. This opens up opportunities by aiding for downstream analysis, by reducing the time of sample preparation for sepsis diagnosis.
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