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Title:		Identification of pathogenic fungi with an optoelectronic nose
Author(s):		Zhang Y; Askim JR; Zhong W; Orlean P; Suslick KS;
Address:		"Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Av., Urbana, IL 61801, USA. ksuslick@illinois.edu"
Journal Title:		Analyst
Year:		2014
Volume:		139
Issue:		8
Page Number:		1922 - 1928
DOI:		10.1039/c3an02112b
ISSN/ISBN:		1364-5528 (Electronic) 0003-2654 (Print) 0003-2654 (Linking)
Abstract:		"Human fungal infections have gained recent notoriety following contamination of pharmaceuticals in the compounding process. Such invasive infections are a more serious global problem, especially for immunocompromised patients. While superficial fungal infections are common and generally curable, invasive fungal infections are often life-threatening and much harder to diagnose and treat. Despite the increasing awareness of the situation's severity, currently available fungal diagnostic methods cannot always meet diagnostic needs, especially for invasive fungal infections. Volatile organic compounds produced by fungi provide an alternative diagnostic approach for identification of fungal strains. We report here an optoelectronic nose based on a disposable colorimetric sensor array capable of rapid differentiation and identification of pathogenic fungi based on their metabolic profiles of emitted volatiles. The sensor arrays were tested with 12 human pathogenic fungal strains grown on standard agar medium. Array responses were monitored with an ordinary flatbed scanner. All fungal strains gave unique composite responses within 3 hours and were correctly clustered using hierarchical cluster analysis. A standard jackknifed linear discriminant analysis gave a classification accuracy of 94% for 155 trials. Tensor discriminant analysis, which takes better advantage of the high dimensionality of the sensor array data, gave a classification accuracy of 98.1%. The sensor array is also able to observe metabolic changes in growth patterns upon the addition of fungicides, and this provides a facile screening tool for determining fungicide efficacy for various fungal strains in real time"
Keywords:		"Colony Count, Microbial Colorimetry Discriminant Analysis Fungi/classification/*isolation & purification/pathogenicity;"
Notes:		"MedlineZhang, Yinan Askim, Jon R Zhong, Wenxuan Orlean, Peter Suslick, Kenneth S eng U01 ES016011/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ U01ES016011/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/ Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural England 2014/02/27 Analyst. 2014 Apr 21; 139(8):1922-8. doi: 10.1039/c3an02112b"