Abstract

The rapid in-situ detection of viability of bacteria is essential for human health and environmental care. It has become one of the biggest needs in biological and medical sciences to prevent infections and diseases, which usually occur in hospitals and field clinics. Nowadays, antibiotic resistance (ABR) has been grown as one of the world’s acutest public health problems, which requires a quick and efficient solution. Here, we demonstrate am easy, sensitive, user-friendly, portable, cost effective and time saving approach for detection of live, dead and drug resistant bacteria. Most of the organisms are found to produce H₂S gas by their metabolism system. The endogenous H₂S evolution was targeted to differentiate between live and dead as well as ABR bacteria. The silver nanorods (AgNRs) arrays sensors were fabricated by glancing angle deposition technique. The colorimetric and water wettability (contact angle) features of as-synthesized AgNRs were found to be highly sensitive and selective for hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) gas.

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