A simple, rapid method to simultaneously identify multiple food poisoning bacteria (IMAGE)

Osaka Metropolitan University

A simple, rapid method to simultaneously identify multiple food poisoning bacteria

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Introducing antibodies that specifically bind to bacteria into nanometer-scaled hybrid structures of polymer-coated metal nanoparticles and then using these structures as test labels, OMU scientists successfully detected food poisoning bacteria E. coli O26, E. coli O157, and S. aureus as white, red, and blue scattered light under the microscope.

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Shiigi, Osaka Metropolitan University

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