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From: Rapid antimicrobial susceptibility tests performed by self-diluting microfluidic chips for drug resistance studies and point-of-care diagnostics

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Schematic diagram of comparison between SDFAST and current method (e.g., disc diffusion). One of the main disadvantages of the current method is the long duration of testing, especially that incubation requires over 20 h. In SDFAST, however, incubation is shortened to 4–6 h, which allows doctors to obtain rapid AST results and prescribe corresponding antibiotics to patients in one day. In the diagram, a part of the SDFAST is shown to demonstrate how the test of one bacteria-antibiotic combination is carried out

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