Molecular and microscopic analysis of bacteria and viruses in exhaled breath collected using a simple impaction and condensing method.

Exhaled breath condensate (EBC) is increasingly being used as a non-invasive method for disease diagnosis and environmental exposure assessment. By using hydrophobic surface, ice, and droplet scavenging, a simple impaction and condensing based collection method is reported here. Human subjects were...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhenqiang Xu, Fangxia Shen, Xiaoguang Li, Yan Wu, Qi Chen, Xu Jie, Maosheng Yao
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
Subjects:
R
Q
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f3c5f36ea800418bba13769238e8946f
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!