We need to get the bacteria from the blood of patients with sepsis for diagnosis, is there any commercial device or prototype capable of efficiently purifying bacteria from blood sample (5-7ml)?
Dear Antonio,
are you looking for something like
https://www.analytik-jena.de/en/life-science/products/prod/cat/enrichment/prod/looxster-enrichment-kit.html
Best regards
Matthias
https://iridica.abbott.com/
Lab system, but, works without culture, from the blood sample in ~6 hrs -PCR and MS used
Ian
If your able to identify the strains of interest they can be sorted out of the whole blood using FACS. This would allow you to get a pure population rather than an "enriched" population- a strong tool when you look at how little contamination it takes to interfere with PCR. You could even separate multiple different bacterial species from the same blood sample as long as they have distinct extracellular markers to stain.
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