Contributed by: Dr. Nishtha Khatri & Dr. Ashok Tamhankar
A recent article published in Nature Communications highlights the importance of point of care diagnostics and describes about a newly built battery-powered smartphone microscope. This portable microscope can be used to carry out a detection assay for DNA specific to antibiotic resistant klebsiella. Have you ever imagined if we have portable diagnostic devices, how easy will it become to detect resistant bacteria? This can be a huge boon in our race against AMR.
