The search for the "Holy Grail" in clinical diagnostic microbiology-a reliable, accurate, low-cost, real-time, easy-to-use method-has brought up several methods with the potential to meet these criteria. One is Raman spectroscopy, an optical, nondestructive method based on the inelastic scattering of monochromatic light. The current study focuses on the possible use of Raman spectroscopy for identifying microbes causing severe, often life-threatening bloodstream infections. We included 305 microbial strains of 28 species acting as causative agents of bloodstream infections. Raman spectroscopy identified the strains from grown colonies, with 2.8% and 7% incorrectly identified strains using the support vector machine algorithm based on centered and uncentred principal-component analyses, respectively. We combined Raman spectroscopy with optical tweezers to speed up the process and captured and analyzed microbes directly from spiked human serum. The pilot study suggests that it is possible to capture individual microbial cells from human serum and characterize them by Raman spectroscopy with notable differences among different species. IMPORTANCE Bloodstream infections are among the most common causes of hospitalizations and are often life-threatening. To establish an effective therapy for a patient, the timely identification of the causative agent and characterization of its antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance profiles are essential. Therefore, our multidisciplinary team of microbiologists and physicists presents a method that reliably, rapidly, and inexpensively identifies pathogens causing bloodstream infections-Raman spectroscopy. We believe that it might become a valuable diagnostic tool in the future. Combined with optical trapping, it offers a new approach where the microorganisms are individually trapped in a noncontact way by optical tweezers and investigated by Raman spectroscopy directly in a liquid sample. Together with the automatic processing of measured Raman spectra and comparison with a database of microorganisms, it makes the whole identification process almost real time.

Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University St Anne's University Hospital Brno Czech Republic

Department of Plant Developmental Genetics Institute of Biophysics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Brno Czech Republic

Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Czech Academy of Sciences Brno Czech Republic

National Centre for Biomolecular Research Faculty of Science Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

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Rapid identification of pathogens in blood serum via Raman tweezers in combination with advanced processing methods