Lab-on-a-chip could speed up treatment of drug-resistant pneumonia
14th Nov 2006, 19:23 GMT
A new lab-on-a-chip can identify single bacterial cells for the most common cases of drug-resistant pneumonia, cutting down the wait from days to hours for identifying the particular strain and treating it.
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