The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases
Global biosecurity threats such as the spread of emerging infectious diseases (i.e., avian influenza, SARS, Hendra, Nipah, etc.) and bioterrorism have generated significant interest in recent years. There is considerable effort directed towards understanding and negating the proliferation of infecti...
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| author | Pejcic, Bobby De Marco, Roland Parkinson, Gordon |
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| description | Global biosecurity threats such as the spread of emerging infectious diseases (i.e., avian influenza, SARS, Hendra, Nipah, etc.) and bioterrorism have generated significant interest in recent years. There is considerable effort directed towards understanding and negating the proliferation of infectious diseases. Biosensors are an attractive tool which have the potential to detect the outbreak of a virus and/or disease. Although there is a host of technologies available, either commercially or in the scientific literature, the development of biosensors for the detection of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is still in its infancy. There is no doubt that the glucose biosensor, the gene chip, the protein chip, etc. have all played and are still playing a significant role in monitoring various biomolecules. Can biosensors play an important role for the detection of emerging infectious diseases? What does the future hold and which biosensor technology platform is suitable for the real-time detection of infectious diseases? These and many other questions will be addressed in this review. The purpose of this review is to present an overview of biosensors particularly in relation to EIDs. It provides a synopsis of the various types of biosensor technologies that have been used to detect EIDs, and describes some of the technologies behind them in terms of transduction and bioreceptor principles. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-115552017-09-13T16:02:37Z The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases Pejcic, Bobby De Marco, Roland Parkinson, Gordon Global biosecurity threats such as the spread of emerging infectious diseases (i.e., avian influenza, SARS, Hendra, Nipah, etc.) and bioterrorism have generated significant interest in recent years. There is considerable effort directed towards understanding and negating the proliferation of infectious diseases. Biosensors are an attractive tool which have the potential to detect the outbreak of a virus and/or disease. Although there is a host of technologies available, either commercially or in the scientific literature, the development of biosensors for the detection of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) is still in its infancy. There is no doubt that the glucose biosensor, the gene chip, the protein chip, etc. have all played and are still playing a significant role in monitoring various biomolecules. Can biosensors play an important role for the detection of emerging infectious diseases? What does the future hold and which biosensor technology platform is suitable for the real-time detection of infectious diseases? These and many other questions will be addressed in this review. The purpose of this review is to present an overview of biosensors particularly in relation to EIDs. It provides a synopsis of the various types of biosensor technologies that have been used to detect EIDs, and describes some of the technologies behind them in terms of transduction and bioreceptor principles. 2006 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11555 10.1039/b603402k The Royal Society of Chemistry 2006 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Pejcic, Bobby De Marco, Roland Parkinson, Gordon The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title | The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title_full | The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title_fullStr | The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title_short | The role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| title_sort | role of biosensors in the detection of emerging infectious diseases |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11555 |