SERS has Single-Bacterium Detection Sensitivity

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The authors would like to thank all the contributions from their collaborators and students over the past three years, with special thanks to Prof. R.A. Dluhy, Prof. D.C. Krause, Dr J.D. Driskell, Dr S. Shanmukh, Dr L. Jones, Dr S.J. Jokela, Dr J.-G. Fan, Mr Y.-J. Liu, Ms. J.-X. Fu, Ms S. Hennigan, Mr Z.-Y. Zhang and Mr S. Chaney. Financial support for these studies was provided by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, US Army Research Laboratory and Georgia Research Alliance. 

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