Product development Bac-D-Tect

Device-independent, real-time identification of bacterial pathogens with a metal oxide-based olfactory sensor

Improvement of methods for  classification and identification of pathogenic  bacterial species is still urgently required.  A novel olfactory method for bacterial species identification based on an electronic nose device. Species identification by our technology  is based on continuous real-time measurement of the kinetics of the synthesis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in culture headspaces. The device independent implementation of the sensor/electronics facilitates application to large sets of bacterial strains and clinical samples without requiring individual (re)calibrations. With pure strains, species specificity between 87% and 100% was achieved.

Live tests will be executed in the veterinarian market in January 2010.
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