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Individual cells immobilization for water-borne pathogen detection and enumeration

2009
Conference Papers

Abstract

A cell counting device has been proposed and implemented for water-borne pathogen detection for drinking water quality monitoring applications. Our approach is based on magnetically-labelled cells immobilization in a high density array of individual cell for optical cell counting. The device has been tested for two water-borne pathogens: Giardia Lamblia & Cryptosporidium. An individual cell immobilization efficiency of 82% was achieved.

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2009
Conference Papers

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/7d317041-f6da-46ab-85a7-fc6a9988f1d5

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