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Detecting sepsis by observing neutrophil motility

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A microfluidic device for assaying neutrophil motility in blood samples from sepsis patients and a machine-learning algorithm trained with the motility data enable a faster and accurate sepsis diagnosis.

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Fig. 1: Microfluidic device for assaying the spontaneous motility of neutrophils in whole blood.
Fig. 2: An integrative approach for the diagnosis and stratification of sepsis.

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Umer Hassan, Enrique Valera & Rashid Bashir

  2. Stevens Family Research Institute, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Umer Hassan, Enrique Valera & Rashid Bashir

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