Drone transport of microbes in blood and sputum laboratory specimens

Timothy K. Amukele; Jeff Street; Karen Carroll; Heather Miller; Sean X. Zhang

doi:10.1128/JCM.01204-16

Drone transport of microbes in blood and sputum laboratory specimens

Timothy K. Amukele, Jeff Street, Karen Carroll, Heather Miller, Sean X. Zhang

School of Medicine

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2622-2625
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of clinical microbiology
Volume	54
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01204-16
State	Published - Oct 2016

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Microbiology (medical)

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