The detection of chemical compounds in exhaled human breath presents an opportunity to
determine physiological state, diagnose disease or assess environmental exposure. Recent …

Exhaled breath is a non-invasive, information-rich matrix with the potential to diagnose or
monitor disease, including infectious disease. Despite significant effort dedicated to …

Immunothrombosis, an inflammation‐dependent activation of the coagulation cascade,
leads to microthrombi formations in small vessels. It is a dreaded complication of COVID‐19 …

The first and most crucial step in breath research is adequate sampling, which plays a
pivotal role in quality assurance of breath datasets. In particular, the emissions or uptake of …

Selected ion flow tube-mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is an analytical technique for volatile
detection and quantification. SIFT-MS can be applied in a “white box” approach, measuring …

Abstract The Peppermint Initiative seeks to inform the standardisation of breath analysis
methods. Five Peppermint Experiments with gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry …

Abstract The Peppermint Experiment is a breath analysis benchmarking initiative that seeks
to address the lack of inter-comparability of outcomes across independent breath biomarker …

Applications for direct breath analysis by mass spectrometry (MS) are rapidly expanding.
One of the more recent mass spectrometry-based approaches is secondary electrospray …

The volatile organic compound (VOC) composition of exhaled breath is complex and
determined by many internal and external factors, such as metabolic, inflammatory and …

Abstract Background The Peppermint Initiative, established within the International
Association of Breath Research, introduced the peppermint protocol, a breath analysis …