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2025 (English)In: npj Digital Medicine, E-ISSN 2398-6352, Vol. 8, no 1, article id 544Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Approximately 50 million people suffer from sepsis yearly, and 13 million die from it. For every hour a patient with septic shock is untreated, their survival rate decreases by 8%. Therefore, rapid detection and antibiotic susceptibility profiling of bacterial agents in the blood of sepsis patients are crucial for determining appropriate treatment. Here, we introduce a method to isolate bacteria from whole blood with high separation efficiency through Smart centrifugation , followed by microfluidic trapping and subsequent detection using deep learning applied to microscopy images. We detected, within 2 h, E. coli , K. pneumoniae , or E. faecalis from spiked samples of healthy human donor blood at clinically relevant concentrations as low as 9, 7 and 32 colony-forming units per ml of blood, respectively. However, the detection of S. aureus remains a challenge. This rapid isolation and detection represents a significant advancement towards culture-free detection of bloodstream infections.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2025
National Category
Medical Laboratory Technologies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-369216 (URN)10.1038/s41746-025-01948-w (DOI)001555365200001 ()40851034 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-105013840802 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, ARC19-0016Swedish Research Council, 2022-06725
Note
Not duplicate with diva 1991310
QC 20250905
2025-08-292025-08-292026-02-05Bibliographically approved