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Testing Antibiotic Resistance with a Fast, Cheap, and Easy Method

2023-04-30

Testing Antibiotic Resistance with a Fast, Cheap, and Easy Method

Researchers at EPFL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel have developed a novel and highly efficient method for rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing using optical microscopy. The technique, called Optical Nanomotion Detection, is extremely rapid, single-cell sensitive, label-free, and requires only a basic traditional optical microscope, equipped with a camera or a mobile phone.