BacteSign: Building a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) Database for Universal Bacterial Identification

Biosensors (Basel). 2024 Apr 5;14(4):176. doi: 10.3390/bios14040176.

Abstract

With the increasing incidence of diverse global bacterial outbreaks, it is important to build an immutable decentralized database that can capture regional changes in bacterial resistance with time. Herein, we investigate the use of a rapid 3D printed µbiochamber with a laser-ablated interdigitated electrode developed for biofilm analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Bacillus subtilis using electrochemical biological impedance spectroscopy (EBIS) across a 48 h spectrum, along with novel ladder-based minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) stencil tests against oxytetracycline, kanamycin, penicillin G and streptomycin. Furthermore, in this investigation, a search query database has been built demonstrating the deterministic nature of the bacterial strains with real and imaginary impedance, phase, and capacitance, showing increased bacterial specification selectivity in the 9772.37 Hz range.

Keywords: Gram-negative bacteria; antibiotic susceptibility assay; bacterial biofilms; impedance-based biosensor; search query database.

MeSH terms

  • Acinetobacter baumannii
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Bacillus subtilis
  • Bacteria
  • Biofilms
  • Databases, Factual
  • Dielectric Spectroscopy
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests*
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa* / drug effects

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents