Elasto-inertial microfluidics for bacteria separation from whole blood for sepsis diagnostics.
Muhammad Asim FaridiHarisha RamachandraiahIndradumna BanerjeeSahar ArdabiliSergey ZeleninAman RussomPublished in: Journal of nanobiotechnology (2017)
We demonstrate separation of bacteria from undiluted while blood using elasto-inertial microfluidics. The label-free, passive bacteria preparation method has a great potential for downstream phenotypic and molecular analysis of bacteria.