Nanobiosensors for the Detection, Diagnostic and Monitoring of Bacterial or Viral Agents
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2022) | Viewed by 4691
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
To prevent the spread of infectious diseases, facilitate their treatment, and minimize the economic impact and societal costs associated with infections, the early detection of disease agents is essential. Conventional culturing methods are effective for the detection of bacterial and viral agents. However, they often require the use of multiple enrichment, differential, and/or selective processes that could be time-consuming. In addition, their detection limits could be high and, often, they only serve as qualitative indicators. Many high-throughput detection methods have been developed to reduce the time required for microbe identification and to improve accuracy. Nanotechnologies offer opportunities to further reduce detection time and detection limit, owing to their unique surface properties, greater surface-to-volume ratios, etc.
For this Special Issue entitled “Nanobiosensors for the Detection, Diagnosis, and/or Monitoring of Bacterial or Viral Agents”, we encourage the submission of original research or review manuscripts discussing the utilization of nanotechnologies for the detection, diagnosis, and/or tracking and imaging of bacterial or viral agents in environmental or biological samples. We welcome discussions on the biocompatibility of sensor materials, specificity determination, detection limit, response time, ability to differentiate infectious from non-infectious agents, etc. In addition, we also welcome reports on data acquisition, transmission, sensor energy sources, etc. Finally, thoughts on nanobiosensors’ fate in the environment and in patients and their risk assessment are appreciated. Papers concerning the development of industrial standards and guidelines in relation to working with nanobiosensors are also of interest.
Dr. Tzuen-Rong Tzeng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Nanotechnology
- Biosensor
- Surface Functionlization
- Detection Limit
- Specificity
- Rapid Detection
- Microfluidic
