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The Dynamics of Single-Cell Nanomotion Behaviour of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a Microfluidic Chip for Rapid Antifungal Susceptibility Testing

Radonicic, Vjera
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Yvanoff, Charlotte
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Villalba, Maria Ines  
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May 1, 2022
Fermentation-Basel

The fast emergence of multi-resistant pathogenic yeasts is caused by the extensive-and sometimes unnecessary-use of broad-spectrum antimicrobial drugs. To rationalise the use of broad-spectrum antifungals, it is essential to have a rapid and sensitive system to identify the most appropriate drug. Here, we developed a microfluidic chip to apply the recently developed optical nanomotion detection (ONMD) method as a rapid antifungal susceptibility test. The microfluidic chip contains no-flow yeast imaging chambers in which the growth medium can be replaced by an antifungal solution without disturbing the nanomotion of the cells in the imaging chamber. This allows for recording the cellular nanomotion of the same cells at regular time intervals of a few minutes before and throughout the treatment with an antifungal. Hence, the real-time response of individual cells to a killing compound can be quantified. In this way, this killing rate provides a new measure to rapidly assess the susceptibility of a specific antifungal. It also permits the determination of the ratio of antifungal resistant versus sensitive cells in a population.

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research article
DOI
10.3390/fermentation8050195
Web of Science ID

WOS:000801253600001

Author(s)
Radonicic, Vjera
Yvanoff, Charlotte
Villalba, Maria Ines  
Kasas, Sandor  
Willaert, Ronnie G.
Date Issued

2022-05-01

Publisher

MDPI

Published in
Fermentation-Basel
Volume

8

Issue

5

Start page

195

Subjects

Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

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Food Science & Technology

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cellular nanomotion

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single cell

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optical nanomotion detection

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microfluidic chip

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no-flow chamber

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yeast

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saccharomyces cerevisiae

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antifungal

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antimicrobial susceptibility

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diffusion

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resistance

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tracking

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