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ReviewReviews in medical virology2022

Nanobiosensor-based diagnostic tools in viral infections: Special emphasis on Covid-19.

Ranjita Misra, Sarbari Acharya, Nehru Sushmitha

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Review in Reviews in medical virology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ranjita MisraCentre for Molecular and Nanomedical Sciences, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3812-3669
Sarbari AcharyaDepartment of Life Science, School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Nehru SushmithaCentre for Molecular and Nanomedical Sciences, Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid propagation of novel human coronavirus 2019 and its emergence as a pandemic raising morbidity calls for taking more appropriate measures for rapid improvement of present diagnostic techniques which are time-consuming, labour-intensive and non-portable. In this scenario, biosensors can be considered as a means to outmatch customary techniques and deliver point-of-care diagnostics for many diseases in a much better way owing to their speed, cost-effectiveness, accuracy, sensitivity and selectivity. Besides this, these biosensors have been aptly used to detect a wide spectrum of viruses thus facilitating timely delivery of correct therapy. The present review is an attempt to analyse such different kinds of biosensors that have been implemented for virus detection. Recently, the field of nanotechnology has given a great push to diagnostic techniques by the development of smart and miniaturised nanobiosensors which have enhanced the diagnostic procedure and taken it to a new level. The portability, hardiness and affordability of nanobiosensor make them an apt diagnostic agent for different kinds of viruses including SARS-CoV-2. The role of such novel nanobiosensors in the diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 has also been addressed comprehensively in the present review. Along with this, the challenges and future position of developing such ultrasensitive nanobiosensors which should be taken into consideration before declaring these nano-weapons as the ideal futuristic gold standard of diagnosis has also been accounted for here.

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COVID-19Virus DiseasesHumansNanotechnologyPandemicsSARS-CoV-2biosensorsCovid-19nanobiosensorsnanotechnologyvirus

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PMID34164867
PMCPMC8420101

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