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Integrated microfluidic system for rapid detection of influenza H1N1 virus using a sandwich-based aptamer assay

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Biosens Bioelectron. 2016 Mar 30;82:105-111. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2016.03.073. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Integrated microfluidic system for rapid detection of influenza H1N1 virus using a sandwich-based aptamer assay.[/h] Tseng YT[SUP]1[/SUP], Wang CH[SUP]1[/SUP], Chang CP[SUP]2[/SUP], Lee GB[SUP]3[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] The rapid spread of influenza-associated H1N1 viruses has caused serious concern in recent years. Therefore, there is an urgent need for the development of automatic, point-of-care devices for rapid diagnosis of the influenza virus. Conventional approaches suffer from several critical issues; notably, they are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and are characterized by relatively low sensitivity. In this work, we present a new approach for fluorescence-based detection of the influenza A H1N1 virus using a sandwich-based aptamer assay that is automatically performed on an integrated microfluidic system. The entire detection process was shortened to 30min using this chip-based system which is much faster than the conventional viral culture method. The limit of detection was significantly improved to 0.032 hemagglutination unit due to the high affinity and high specificity of the H1N1-specific aptamers. The results showed that the two-aptamer microfluidic system had about 10[SUP]3[/SUP] times higher sensitivity than the conventional serological diagnosis. It was demonstrated that the developed microfluidic system may play as a powerful tool in the detection of the H1N1 virus.
Copyright ? 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] H1N1; Influenza A virus; Microfluidics; Sandwich-based aptamer assay

PMID: 27054814 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
 
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