Micro-flow cell washing technique combined with single-cell Raman spectroscopy for rapid and automatic antimicrobial susceptibility test of pathogen in urine

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Facing the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance, methods based on single-cell Raman spectroscopy have proven their advances in reducing the turn-around time (TAT) of antimicrobial susceptibility tests (AST). However, the Raman-based methods are still hindered by the prolonged centrifugal cell washing procedure, which may require complex labor operation and induce high mechanical stress, resulting in a pretreatment time of over 1 h as well as a high cell-loss probability. In this study, we developed a micro-flow cell washing device and corresponding Raman-compatible washing chips, which were able to automatically remove the impurities in the samples, retain the bacterial cell and perform Raman spectra acquisition in situ. Results of washing the 5- and 10-μm polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres showed that the novel technique achieved a successful removal of 99 % impurity and an 80 % particle retention rate after 6 to 10 cycles of washing. The micro-flow cell washing technique could complete the pretreatment for urine samples in a 96-well plate within 10 min, only taking 15 % of the handling time required by centrifugation. The AST profiles of urine sample spiked with E. coli 25922, E. faecalis 29212, and S. aureus 29213 obtained by the proposed Raman-based approach were found to be 100 % consistent with the results from broth micro-dilution while reducing the TAT to 3 h from several days which is required by the latter. Our study has demonstrated the micro-flow cell washing technique is a reliable, fast and compatible approach to replace centrifuge washing for sample pretreatment of Raman-AST and could be readily applied in clinical scenarios.

Media Type:

Electronic Article

Year of Publication:

2024

Publication:

2024

Contained In:

To Main Record - volume:277

Contained In:

Talanta - 277(2024) vom: 01. Juli, Seite 126354

Language:

English

Contributors:

Zhao, Luoqi [Author]
Jiang, Zheng [Author]
Wang, Jingkai [Author]
Wang, Xinyue [Author]
Zhang, Zhiqiang [Author]
Hu, Huijie [Author]
Qi, Xiangdong [Author]
Zeng, Huan [Author]
Song, Yizhi [Author]

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Keywords:

9011-14-7
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antimicrobial susceptibility test
Cell washing
Journal Article
Micro-flow
Polymethyl Methacrylate
Single-cell Raman spectroscopy

Notes:

Date Completed 18.07.2024

Date Revised 18.07.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.talanta.2024.126354

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PPN (Catalogue-ID):

NLM373389736