Microfluidics for effective concentration and sorting of waterborne protozoan pathogens

M. Jimenez; H. Bridle

doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2016.04.008

Microfluidics for effective concentration and sorting of waterborne protozoan pathogens

M. Jimenez^*, H. Bridle

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Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

We report on an inertial focussing based microfluidics technology for concentrating waterborne protozoa, achieving a 96% recovery rate of Cryptosporidium parvum and 86% for Giardia lamblia at a throughput (mL/min) capable of replacing centrifugation. The approach can easily be extended to other parasites and also bacteria.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8-11
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Microbiological Methods
Volume	126
Early online date	30 Apr 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mimet.2016.04.008
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2016

Funding

M.J. and H.B. would like to would like to acknowledge EU funding for the project “AQUAVALENS: protecting the health of Europeans by improving methods for the detection of pathogens in drinking water and water used in food preparation” and the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award. H.B. would like to acknowledge The Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC for her research fellowship. M.J. and H.B. would like to acknowledge Epigem for the manufacturing part and Brian Miller for design considerations of inertial focussing devices in this type of application.

Keywords

Concentration
Cryptosporidium
Giardia
Microfluidics
Protozoa
Recovery rate
Sample processing
Waterborne disease

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