Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 1425-1431Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2008.12.024
Keywords
Gold nanoparticles; Catalytic growth; Giardia lamblia cysts
Funding
- Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
- Korea government (MEST) [R0A-2008-000-20078-0]
- Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea
- Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (KEITI) [20081000200470] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2008-0060009, 과C6A1904, R0A-2008-000-20078-0] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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A homogenous detection of pathogen (Giardia lamblia cysts) based on the catalytic growth of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) has been studied. In this study, centrifugal filters were employed as tools to concentrate and separate the pathogen cells, and moreover amplify the detection signal. The catalytic growth of gold nanoparticles was verified to be positively related to gold seeds concentration. on this basis, homogenous detection of the pathogenic bacteria in liquid phase was established by means of conjugating antibody to gold seeds. Under the given experimental condition, detection limit of G. lamblia cysts was determined as low as 1.088 x 10(3) cells ml(-1). The additional nonspecific binding tests were also conducted to versify the detection specificity. This sensing platform has been proved to be a sensitive, reliable and simple method for large-scale pathogen detection, and provide valuable insight for the development of gold nanocrystals based colorimetric biosensors. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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