Microneedle Patchs Monitor Antibodies to Help Treat Infections

Microneedle Patchs Monitor Antibodies to Help Treat Infections
Oct-01-19
A microneedle patch able to monitor antibiotic levels in real-time offers a useful tool when treating patients with bacterial infections.

Doctors treating bacterial infections often need to know the amount of antibiotics currently in the patient’s bloodstream in order to choose the most effective treatment. To simplify that task, the team from Imperial College London created a microneedle sensor patch able to continuously track antibiotic concentrations in the bloodstream accurately and painlessly. The device relies on a coating of enzymes on its needles that trigger a detectable pH change in the presence of the specified antibiotic, with the results sent to a connected, external monitor.

Accordng to lead scientist Dr. Timothy Rawson, "By using a simple patch on the skin of the arm, or potentially at the site of infection, it could tell us how much of a drug is being used by the body and provide us with vital medical information, in real-time."

Microneedle Patchs Monitor Antibodies to Help Treat Infections


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