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Good vibrations for bad bacteria

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The response of bacteria to antibiotics can be quickly assessed by monitoring the fluctuations of cantilevers coated with the bacteria.

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Figure 1: Detecting antibiotic-resistant bacteria with cantilevers.

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  1. Rachel A. McKendry and Natascha Kappeler are at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and Division of Medicine, University College London, 17-19 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH, UK,

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McKendry, R., Kappeler, N. Good vibrations for bad bacteria. Nature Nanotech 8, 483–484 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2013.127

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