Point-of-Care Devices for Pathogen Detection
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B4: Point-of-Care Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2022) | Viewed by 5136
Special Issue Editor
Interests: point of care diagnostics; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidics; organs-on-chip
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Dear Colleagues,
Progressing point-of-care devices for early diagnosis of infectious diseases has great substantial merit worldwide, especially in remote regions where healthcare and medical services are limited. Point-of-care diagnostic devices are rapidly increasing in demand, and the global market is estimated to reach approximately 43 billion by 2026.
This Special Issue focuses on rapid detection methods for infectious diseases using microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies as toolsets to explore the possibility of realizing and commercializing point-of-care diagnostic devices. The development of science in the last three decades, especially in micro- and nanotechnology, materials sciences and biotechnology, has opened a great opportunity for the rapid, cost-efficient detection of ultra-low concentrations and volumes of reagents, giving rise to applications and implementation in the detection of a broad spectrum of pathogens by utilizing different biomarkers, e.g., DNA, mRNA, proteins and antibodies.
As the Guest Editor of this Special Issue, I would like to thank the contributors in advance for their valuable time and for submitting papers of a high quality. If you have any research in this field that you would like to publish, you are welcome to submit your work to this Special Issue.
Dr. Trieu Nguyen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- point-of-care devices
- pathogen detection
- diagnostics
- DNA
- microfluidics
- antibody
- protein
- PCR
- LAMP
- fluorescence
- phosphorescence
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