Classification of the bacteria E. coli and S. aureus by spectroscopy technique laser induced plasma

The Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LBS) is a technique of compositional analysis, which uses a laser pulse in order to vaporize from nanogram to microgram amount of any material, and thermally excites the material vaporizing in a short-life plasma. the technique also it has advantages among which is that not require pretreatment of the sample, easy and quick operation, free of chemicals during the process and does not modify the state of the sample, it can be solid, liquid, spray or gas. Due to the growing demand to identify bacteria in a fast, reliably and accurately way, in this work it has been proposed to use the LIBS technique and a classifier clustering to identify the Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli bacteria. As excitation source a Q:Switch multipulse laser is used, which favors the emission intensity. The results show a clear classification of these two bacteria strains. (Author)