Bio-Electric and Electrochemical Biosensors for Respiratory Viruses Detection
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 11616
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recent severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak emerged the need for the accurate and on-time identification of COVID-19 disease and other emerging viruses in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. Thus, several analytical techniques were developed in order to enter the battle against viral spread. The gold standard test for detecting COVID-19 is real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This methodology is highly accurate, however it is laborious and requires highly trained users. Several rapid and cheap immuno-diagnostic tests have also been developed, but their results do not present high accuracy. Biosensors represent promising alternatives to the abovementioned technoloiges as they utilize chemical and physical bio-signals coupled to a chemo/physical transducer for converting a biorecognition event into a measurable signal in a rapid, very sensitive, and often non-invasive manner. Electrochemical biosensors display several advantages over the traditional spectroscopic methods, as they are cheap, easy to use, and applicable in on-site analyses with a minimum or no sample pretreatment. On the other hand, bioelectric biosensors measure the electric properties of biorecognition elements as a reflection of cellular, biological, and biomolecular functions offering multiple options of assay targets (molecules, cells, organs, and organisms) as well as methodological approaches (e.g., potentiometry, impedance spectrometry, and patch-clamp electrophysiology). This Special Issue will provide knowledge on research and development in the fields of bio-electric and electrochemical biosensors as analytical tools for the infection caused by SARS CoV-2 and related respiratory viruses. Research papers, short communications, and reviews are all welcome. If the author is interested in submitting a review, it would be helpful to discuss this with the guest-editor before submission.
Prof. Dr. Spyridon Kintzios
Dr. Sofia Mavrikou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SARS CoV-2 and other emerging respiratory viruses
- COVID-19 diagnostics
- bioelectric profiling
- biosensor
- electrophysiology
- impedance spectrometry
- microsensors
- nanosensors
- potentiometry
- signal transduction
- electrochemical biosensors
- immobilized bioreceptors
- biorecognition kinetics
- modified electrodes
- nanomaterial
- sample interference
- clinical analysis
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