10 January 2013
Updated at 20:41 ET
Lung infection identified using 'breath-print'
A patient having his breath sampled and analysed
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Identifying the "smell" of different types of lung bacteria could lead to a simple breath test to diagnose infections, a study on mice, in the Journal of Breath Research, suggests.
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