細菌が固有の音を発することを利用した迅速診断技術を開発(Bacteria reveal themselves through unique sounds: a breakthrough for rapid diagnostics)

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2026-03-18 デルフト工科大学(TU Delft)

Delft University of Technologyの研究チームは、細菌が発する固有の「音」を利用した新しい迅速診断技術を開発した。研究では、細菌が表面に付着した際に生じる微細な振動を高感度センサーで検出し、その音響パターンから細菌の存在や活動状態を識別できることを示した。さらに抗生物質投与時の反応も音として捉えられ、薬剤耐性の有無を迅速に判定可能である。この手法は従来の培養法よりも大幅に短時間で診断できる可能性があり、感染症治療の迅速化や適切な抗菌薬選択に貢献する。医療診断の革新につながる技術として期待される。

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単一細胞ナノモーションと機械学習を用いた並列細菌同定および抗生物質スクリーニング Single-Cell Nanomotion and Machine Learning for Parallel Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Screening

Santiago Mendoza-Silva,Farbod Alijani,Le-Vaughn Naarden,Roxan Broer,Leo Smeets,Tabea Riepe,Irek Roslon,and Aleksandre Japaridze
ACS Sensors  Published: March 17, 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.5c04649

Abstract

細菌が固有の音を発することを利用した迅速診断技術を開発(Bacteria reveal themselves through unique sounds: a breakthrough for rapid diagnostics)

Rapid and accurate identification of bacterial infections and their resistance to antibiotics is critical to effective clinical decision-making and combating antimicrobial resistance. However, current diagnostic approaches are typically segmented: techniques such as MALDI-TOF provide species identification but cannot assess antibiotic susceptibility, while standard antimicrobial susceptibility (AST) tests are time-consuming and lack concurrent identification capability. In this study, we overcome these limitations by integrating single-cell nanomotion detection using graphene drums with machine learning (ML) algorithms to perform both tasks simultaneously within a single measurement. Nanomotion signals, nanoscale vibrations from single living cells, are recorded in real time and transformed into time-frequency spectrograms, which serve as inputs to ML models trained for robust pattern recognition. Our framework enables the differentiation of Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Klebsiella pneumoniae while simultaneously distinguishing resistant and susceptible strains with 98% precision. By coupling highly sensitive graphene nanomotion sensors with advanced ML tools, our approach delivers label-free bacterial diagnostics, offering both identification and susceptibility profiling at the single-cell level within a couple of hours.

生物化学工学
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