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ReviewBiosensors2020

Integrated Electrochemical Biosensors for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens in Low-Resource Settings.

Joshua Rainbow, Eliska Sedlackova, Shu Jiang, Grace Maxted, Despina Moschou, Lukas Richtera, Pedro Estrela

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In one paragraph

Review in Biosensors, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Recent developments in waterborne pathogen detection technologies.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025
    Review
  3. Spatiotemporal assessment of pathogenicJournal of water and health · 2024
    Article
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  6. Review
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  9. Frontiers in microbiology · 2022
    Article
  10. Review
  11. Rapid Detection ofBiosensors · 2020
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joshua RainbowCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3911-928X
Eliska SedlackovaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-1367-9414
Shu JiangCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.
Grace MaxtedCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6816-9107
Despina MoschouCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9175-5852
Lukas RichteraDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1665/1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8288-3999
Pedro EstrelaCentre for Biosensors, Bioelectronics and Biodevices (C3Bio) and Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6956-1146
University of Bath · GBCentral European Institute of Technology · CZ

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P028403/1Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic CEITEC 2020 (LQ1601)Natural Environment Research Council GW4 FRESH CDT
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 783 million people worldwide are currently without access to clean and safe water. Approximately 1 in 5 cases of mortality due to waterborne diseases involve children, and over 1.5 million cases of waterborne disease occur every year. In the developing world, this makes waterborne diseases the second highest cause of mortality. Such cases of waterborne disease are thought to be caused by poor sanitation, water infrastructure, public knowledge, and lack of suitable water monitoring systems. Conventional laboratory-based techniques are inadequate for effective on-site water quality monitoring purposes. This is due to their need for excessive equipment, operational complexity, lack of affordability, and long sample collection to data analysis times. In this review, we discuss the conventional techniques used in modern-day water quality testing. We discuss the future challenges of water quality testing in the developing world and how conventional techniques fall short of these challenges. Finally, we discuss the development of electrochemical biosensors and current research on the integration of these devices with microfluidic components to develop truly integrated, portable, simple to use and cost-effective devices for use by local environmental agencies, NGOs, and local communities in low-resource settings.

Indexed as

Water MicrobiologyBiosensing TechniquesElectrochemical TechniquesHumanselectrochemical biosensorsin-situ monitoringlow and middle-income countries (LMICs)low-resource settingsmicrobial pollutionpoint-of-care

Identifiers

PMID32294961
PMCPMC7236604
OpenAlexW3015793966

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Registered trials

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