Determination of Escherichia coli in urine using a low-cost foil-based microfluidic device

Publication date: 1 August 2017
Source:Talanta, Volume 170
Author(s): Tereza Mašková, Lenka Hárendarčíková, Jan Petr
We developed a simple low-cost cultivation-based microfluidic device from office-laminator foil and Parafilm for the determination of specific microorganisms in water samples. The main goal was to obtain a device that would be portable and cheap compared to common laboratory techniques testing microorganisms. This device needs only 10µL of a sample and can be easily used in terrain by a non-specialist. Moreover, we dealt with some technical aspects of the device fabrication such as low-cost lamination techniques and the use of different cultivation media.

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