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SUBMITTER: Hassan U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5500847 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hassan U U Ghonge T T Reddy B B Patel M M Rappleye M M Taneja I I Tanna A A Healey R R Manusry N N Price Z Z Jensen T T Berger J J Hasnain A A Flaugher E E Liu S S Davis B B Kumar J J White K K Bashir R R
Nature communications 20170703
Sepsis, a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection, has the highest burden of death and medical expenses in hospitals worldwide. Leukocyte count and CD64 expression on neutrophils (nCD64) are known to correlate strongly with improved sensitivity and specificity of sepsis diagnosis at its onset. A major challenge is the lack of a rapid and accurate point-of-care (PoC) device that can perform these measurements from a minute blood sample. Here, we report a PoC microfluidic biochip ...[more]