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ArticleActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B2024

Automated and miniaturized screening of antibiotic combinations

Fangchi Shao, Hui Li, Kuangwen Hsieh, Pengfei Zhang, Sixuan Li, Tza-Huei Wang

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Article in Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fangchi ShaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Hui LiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Kuangwen HsiehDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Pengfei ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Sixuan LiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Tza-Huei WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

A Droplet-based single cell platform for pathogen identification and ASTR01AI117032 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LIAO, JOSEPH C, WANG, TZA-HUEI JEFF · 2015 to 2019
$5.7M
Technology development for point-of-care detection and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeaeR01AI138978 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, TZA-HUEI JEFF · 2018 to 2021
$5.1M
A "Culture" Shift: Integrated Bacterial Screening and Antibacterial Susceptibility Test on Microfluidic Digital Array for Bloodstream InfectionsR01AI137272 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, TZA-HUEI JEFF, YANG, SAMUEL · 2018 to 2022
$3.6M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI117032NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI137272NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI138978
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become a global health crisis in need of novel solutions. To this end, antibiotic combination therapies, which combine multiple antibiotics for treatment, have attracted significant attention as a potential approach for combating AMR. To facilitate advances in antibiotic combination therapies, most notably in investigating antibiotic interactions and identifying synergistic antibiotic combinations however, there remains a need for automated high-throughput platforms that can create and examine antibiotic combinations on-demand, at scale, and with minimal reagent consumption. To address these challenges, we have developed a Robotic-Printed Combinatorial Droplet (RoboDrop) platform by integrating a programmable droplet microfluidic device that generates antibiotic combinations in nanoliter droplets in automation, a robotic arm that arranges the droplets in an array, and a camera that images the array of thousands of droplets in parallel. We further implement a resazurin-based bacterial viability assay to accelerate our antibiotic combination testing. As a demonstration, we use RoboDrop to corroborate two pairs of antibiotics with known interactions and subsequently identify a new synergistic combination of cefsulodin, penicillin, and oxacillin against a model

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Antibiotic combinatorial screeningAntibiotic interactionsAntimicrobial resistanceContact printingDroplet microfluidicsHigh-throughputPharmaceutical analysisRobotics

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PMID38572105
PMCPMC10985126
OpenAlexW4389080129

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