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Capture and detection of urine bacteria using a microchannel silicon nanowire microfluidic chip coupled with
Yuexin Li1, Tao Wang1, Jianmin Wu1
1Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. wjm-st1@zju.edu.cn.
The Analyst
|February 3, 2021
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Fast bacterial identification in urine samples was achieved by capturing bacteria on a microchannel silicon nanowire microfluidic chip, followed by MALDI-TOF MS detection. Under the optimized conditions, bacteria with a concentration of 106 CFU mL-1 in urine samples could be identified without culture. If cultured for 4 hours, bacteria with a concentration as low as 103 CFU mL-1 were identified.
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