New medical device for bacterial life detection, parallelizable, versatile and rapid.
In recent decades, the massive and often abusive use of antibiotics has led to bacterial resistance which is already a major public health problem, and which will become critical very soon, including in Switzerland.
In order to find an effective antibiotic for an infected patient quickly (in less than an hour), it is necessary to develop new antibiotic susceptibility tests (AST) on a very small quantity of infectious bacteria.
The objective of the project is to develop a functional AST prototype, based on liquid interferometric optical microscopy (LIOM), which is quick and versatile to use and can measure several antibiotics simultaneously (parallelization).
Project partner(s)
Project leader - team
Marc Jobin
(HEPIA)
