Portable Device Detects Antibiotic Resistance

Dec-26-16 A new smartphone-based device able to detect antibiotic resistance could help save lives in remote and impoverished areas.

The system, created by a team from the University of California, is equipped with a plate that can hold as many as 96 different bacteria samples, each exposed to a different antibiotic for testing. Once the bacteria have had enough time to react to the medicine, the device’s LEDs will illuminate the sample in each well while the smartphone’s camera captures the changes in light as it passes through the sample. Those images are then sent to a remote server that processes the data to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility in about a minute.

In tests, the small device met the FDA standards with an accuracy of about 98.2 percent.

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