“…In addition, operation under flow conditions improves immunocapture, enzymatic reactions and electrochemical detection by minimising mass transport limitations, contributing to shorter assay time. At least one work reports on a flow-through immunomagnetic separator designed to capture bacteria from large volume samples (>50 ml) (Rotariu et al, 2005) and an increasing number of publications describe the automation of MP manipulation, recovery, and/or detection (Herrmann et al, 2008;Hervas et al, 2009;Peyman et al, 2009;Yoon et al, 2009;Berti et al, 2009;Johansson et al, 2010). However, only a few cases describe the application to immunocapture and detection of whole bacterial cells (Chandler et al, 2001;Straub et al, 2005;Qiu et al, 2009;Ramadan et al, 2010).…”