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  • Biotechnology
  • Microbiology
  • Medical Diagnostics

Background:

  • Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is crucial for effective antibiotic treatment and managing antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
  • Current AST methods can be time-consuming and require specialized equipment, limiting their use in resource-limited settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate an instrument-free, rapid phenotypic AST method.
  • To enable naked-eye readout of bacterial susceptibility within approximately 60 minutes.

Main Methods:

  • Integration of catalase-mediated hydrogen peroxide decomposition with microflow tubing displacement.
  • Utilizing a disposable syringe as a reaction chamber and a micrometer-scale PTFE tube for visual readout.
  • Optimization of bacterial inoculum size, hydrogen peroxide concentration, and incubation time.

Main Results:

  • Successful discrimination between susceptible and resistant bacterial strains (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus) within ~60 minutes.
  • High concordance with standard AST results when validated against 63 clinical isolates and four antibiotics (CLSI guidelines).
  • Accurate susceptibility determination in 18 culture-free urinary tract infection samples.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method is a low-cost, rapid, and portable platform for phenotypic AST.
  • This technology shows significant potential for point-of-care AST, especially in resource-limited environments.
  • The instrument-free approach simplifies AST, making it more accessible globally.