Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health worldwide, and the rapid
detection and quantification of resistance, combined with antimicrobial stewardship, are key …

Superbugs such as infectious bacteria pose a great threat to humanity due to an increase in
bacterial mortality leading to clinical treatment failure, lengthy hospital stay, intravenous …

Infectious diseases caused by bacterial pathogens remain one of the most common causes
of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Rapid microbiological analysis is required for prompt …

Rapid bacterial identification (ID) and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) are in great
demand due to the rise of drug-resistant bacteria. Conventional culture-based AST methods …

The indiscriminate use and mismanagement of antibiotics over the last eight decades have
led to one of the main challenges humanity will have to face in the next twenty years in terms …

Using an antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) as an example, this work demonstrates a
practical method to fabricate microfluidic chips entirely from polypropylene (PP) and the …

Sepsis is a dysregulated inflammatory response leading to multiple organ failure. Current
methods of sepsis detection are time-consuming, involving nonspecific clinical signs …

With global antimicrobial resistance becoming increasingly detrimental to society, improving
current clinical antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) is crucial to allow physicians to …

We report the development of a platform for sensing bacterial growth by observing pH
change via a change in fluorescence. While the platform allows for the rapid detection of …

Various nanomechanical movements of bacteria provide a signature of bacterial viability.
Most notably, bacterial movements have been observed to subside rapidly and dramatically …