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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Amukele, Timothy K
• Street, Jeff
• Carroll, Karen
• Miller, Heather
• Zhang, Sean X
• Ledeboer, N. A.

Titel

Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens

Ist Teil von

• Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016-10, Vol.54 (10), p.2622-2625

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Society for Microbiology

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could potentially be used to transport microbiological specimens. To examine the impact of UAVs on microbiological specimens, blood and sputum culture specimens were seeded with usual pathogens and flown in a UAV for 30 ± 2 min. Times to recovery, colony counts, morphologies, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS)-based identifications of the flown and stationary specimens were similar for all microbes studied.