Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 67, Issue -, Pages 615-620Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2014.09.075
Keywords
Impedance microbiology; Bacteriophage; Pathogen detection; Microsystem; Low conductivity broth; System integration
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- RESTATE Project (Marie Curie Cofund) [267224]
- FBK
- European Commission
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A novel and unconventional approach to impedance microbiology has been under investigation. In our approach, solution conductivity variations are generated from bacteriophage lyses of infected host cells and the consequent release of conductive endoplasmic material. To sensitively detect the lysis, low conductive growth media have been developed. A microchip has been fabricated to perform the analysis. The microchip is made of two bare gold electrodes and PDMS microchamber of 36 nL volume. Escherichia coil and selective phages T4 have been used as case study. Proof-of-principle experiments are here presented and discussed. The method was characterised in a wide range between 10(4) and 10(8) CFU/mL, where linear relation was found between conductivity variation and cell concentration in a logio vs. logio plot. The method is suited to integration with sample preparation based on phage-functionalised magnetic beads. It has a potential detection limit below 1 CFU/chamber and a total assay time of less than 1h. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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