Electrostatic Sampling of Patient Breath for Pathogen Detection: A Pilot Study
Collecting samples for diagnosis of respiratory infections can be invasive and highly uncomfortable for patients; with sampling techniques ranging from nasal or throat swabs to bronchoalveolar lavage. In this work, we explore the electrostatic capture of exhaled pathogens as a non-invasive sampling...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmech.2020.00040/full |