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ArticleScientific reports2018

Sensitive, Real-time and Non-Intrusive Detection of Concentration and Growth of Pathogenic Bacteria using Microfluidic-Microwave Ring Resonator Biosensor.

Rakesh Narang, Sevda Mohammadi, Mehdi Mohammadi Ashani, Hamid Sadabadi, Hossein Hejazi, Mohammad Hossein Zarifi, Amir Sanati-Nezhad

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 177 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rakesh NarangBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 2N1, Canada.
Sevda MohammadiMicroelectronics and Advanced Sensors Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada.
Mehdi Mohammadi AshaniBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 2N1, Canada.
Hamid SadabadiBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 2N1, Canada.
Hossein HejaziSubsurface Fluidics and Porous Media Laboratory, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.
Mohammad Hossein ZarifiMicroelectronics and Advanced Sensors Laboratory, School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada. mohammad.zarifi@ubc.ca.
Amir Sanati-NezhadBioMEMS and Bioinspired Microfluidic Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 2N1, Canada. amir.sanatinezhad@ucalgary.ca.
University of Calgary · CAUniversity of British Columbia · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infection diagnosis and antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) are time-consuming and often laborious clinical practices. This paper presents a microwave-microfluidic biosensor for rapid, contactless and non-invasive device for testing the concentration and growth of Escherichia Coli (E. Coli) in medium solutions of different pH to increase the efficacy of clinical microbiology practices. The thin layer interface between the microfluidic channel and the microwave resonator significantly enhanced the detection sensitivity. The microfluidic chip, fabricated using standard soft lithography, was injected with bacterial samples and incorporated with a microwave microstrip ring resonator sensor with an operation frequency of 2.5 GHz and initial quality factor of 83 for detecting the concentration and growth of bacteria. The resonator had a coupling gap area on of 1.5 × 1.5 mm

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MicrowavesBiosensing TechniquesElectromagnetic FieldsEscherichia coliMicrofluidics

Identifiers

PMID30361480
PMCPMC6202403
OpenAlexW2898065371

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