Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens from maldi Watch Video
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Description: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could potentially be used to transport microbiological specimens. To examine UAV impact on microbiological specimens, blood and sputum culture specimens were seeded with usual pathogens and flown in an UAV for 30±2 minutes. Time-to-recovery, colony counts, morphology and MALDI-TOF MS identification of the flown and stationary specimens were similar for all microbes studied.nnThe paper was published on August 17, 2016 in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology: http:
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