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Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens

Author(s) -

Timothy Amukele,

Jeff Street,

Karen C. Carroll,

Heather B. Miller,

Sean X. Zhang

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01204-16

Subject(s) - sputum , microbiology and biotechnology , mass spectrometry , chromatography , biology , chemistry , pathology , medicine , tuberculosis

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.

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