Mobile Anaerobe Laboratory

The Mobile Robot Laboratory

Performance of human fecal anaerobe-associated PCR-based assays in a multi-laboratory method evaluation study.

A number of PCR-based methods for detecting human fecal material in environmental waters have been developed over the past decade, but these methods have rarely received independent comparative testing in large multi-laboratory studies. Here, we evaluated ten of these methods (BacH, BacHum-UCD, Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (BtH), BsteriF1, gyrB, HF183 endpoint, HF183 SYBR, HF183 Taqman(®), HumM...

Micro-Media Systems anaerobe panel versus broth disk method in anaerobe antimicrobial testing.

Frozen microtitration trays manufactured by Micro-Media Systems (MMS) for antimicrobial testing of anaerobic bacteria were evaluated and compared with the broth disk elution method of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) described by Wilkins and Thiel. A total of 224 clinical anaerobic isolates were tested. Susceptibility results were compared for carbenicillin, cefoxitin, chloramphenicol, clin...

The Manchester Remote Mobile Robotics Laboratory

Remote access to robotics facilites allows robotics research to be conducted even if resources are not available locally. To investigate the feasibility of robotics experimentation via internet, we have conducted two independent experiments in which the Manchester mobile robot FortyTwo has been operated from a remote site,using a standard internet connection. In the rst experiment (\Channellink...

Systematic deployment of a mobile laboratory

This discussion paper is/has been under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). Please refer to the corresponding final paper in ACP if available. Abstract In urban areas, air quality is the outcome of multiple emission sources, each emitting a different combination of air pollutants. The result is a complex mixture of pollutants with a different spatiotemporal variabili...