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Drone Transport of Microbes in Blood and Sputum Laboratory Specimens
December 27, 2015

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could potentially be used to transport microbiological specimens. To examine UAV impact on microbiological specimens, blood and sputum culture specimens were seeded with usual pathogens and flown in an UAV for 30±2 minutes. Time-to-recovery, colony counts, morphology and MALDI-TOF MS identification of the flown and stationary specimens were similar for all microbes studied.
The paper was published on August 17, 2016 in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology: jcm.asm.org/content/early/2016/08/10/JCM.01204-16

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Drone transport of blood products
March 29, 2016

Small civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), colloquially known as drones, are a novel way to transport small goods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study examining the impact of drone transport on blood products or describing approaches to maintaining temperature control and blood component physical characteristics during drone transport.