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Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Amukele TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5035434 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens.

Amukele Timothy K TK   Street Jeff J   Carroll Karen K   Miller Heather H   Zhang Sean X SX  

Journal of clinical microbiology 20160817 10


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 studi  ...[more]

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