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Lab on a Chip . e View Article Online c n CRITICAL REVIEW e View Journal | View Issue c i L d e t r o p n Droplet microfluidics for microbiology: U 0 . 3 l techniques, applications and challenges a i Cite this: Lab Chip, 2016, 16, 2168 c . r 0 e a ab a 5 m Tomasz S. Kaminski,† Ott Scheler† and Piotr Garstecki* : 7 m 5 o : C 5 1 n 6 o Droplet microfluidics has rapidly emerged as one of the key technologies opening up new experimental 1 N 0 - 2 n possibilities in microbiology. The ability to generate, manipulate and monitor droplets carrying single cells / o 2 i t 1 u or small populations of bacteria in a highly parallel and high throughput manner creates new approaches / b 1 i 2 r t Received 17th March 2016, for solving problems in diagnostics and for research on bacterial evolution. This review presents applica- n t o A Accepted 6th May 2016 d s tions of droplet microfluidics in various fields of microbiology: i) detection and identification of pathogens, e n d o a m DOI: 10.1039/c6lc00367b