Fast and inexpensive detection of bacterial viability and drug effectiveness through metabolic monitoring

Abstract Conventional methods for the detection of bacterial infection such as DNA or immunoassays are either expensive, time consuming, or not definitive; thus may not provide all the information sought by the medical professionals. In particular, it is difficult to obtain information about viability or drug effectiveness, which are crucial to formulate a treatment. Bacterial culture test is the “gold standard” because it is inexpensive and …