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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

A Rapid Label-Free Disposable Electrochemical Salivary Point-of-Care Sensor for SARS-CoV-2 Detection and Quantification.

Nadia Farsaeivahid, Christian Grenier, Sheyda Nazarian, Ming L Wang

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Nadia FarsaeivahidInterdisciplinary Engineering Program, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Christian GrenierInterdisciplinary Engineering Program, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Sheyda NazarianInterdisciplinary Engineering Program, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Ming L WangCivil and Environmental Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created an urgent need for accurate early diagnosis and monitoring. A label-free rapid electrochemical point-of-care (POC) biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 detection in human saliva is reported here to help address the shortcomings of traditional nucleic acid amplification methods and give a quantitative assessment of the viral load to track infection status anywhere, using disposable electrochemical sensor chips. A new chemical construct of gold nanoparticles (GNp) and thionine (Th) are immobilized on carboxylic acid functionalized carbon nanotubes (SWCNT-COOH) for high-performance biosensing. The sensor uses saliva with a one-step pretreatment and simple testing procedure as an analytical medium due to the user-friendly and non-invasive nature of its procurement from patients. The sensor has a response time of 5 min with a limit of detection (LOD) reaching 200 and 500 pM for the freely suspended spike (S) protein in phosphate buffer saline (PBS) and human saliva, respectively. The sensor's performance was also proven for detecting a COVID-19 pseudovirus in an electrolyte solution with a LOD of 10

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Biosensing TechniquesCOVID-19Metal NanoparticlesNanotubes, CarbonGoldHumansPoint-of-Care SystemsSARS-CoV-2GoldNanotubes, CarbonbiosensorCOVID-19electrochemistrypoint-of-caresalivaSARS-CoV-2 detectionspike protein

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PMID36617031
PMCPMC9823438

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