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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 94, Issue 9, Pages 3849-3857Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.1c04755
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- National Science Foundation [2003302]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [2003302] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study demonstrates the potential of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors in the rapid diagnostics of bacterial vaginosis during pregnancy. The fabricated sensors can effectively detect BV-related factors and classify the samples using machine learning techniques.
The ability to rapidly and reliably screen for bacterial vaginosis (BV) during pregnancy is of great significance for maternal health and pregnancy outcomes. In this proof-of-concept study, we demonstrated the potential of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (NTFET) in the rapid diagnostics of BV with the sensing of BV-related factors such as pH and biogenic amines. The fabricated sensors showed good linearity to pH changes with a linear correlation coefficient of 0.99. The pH sensing performance was stable after more than one month of sensor storage. In addition, the sensor was able to classify BV-related biogenic amine-negative/positive samples with machine learning, utilizing different test strategies and algorithms, including linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM), and principal component analysis (PCA). The biogenic amine sample status could be well classified using a soft-margin SVM model with a validation accuracy of 87.5%. The accuracy could be further improved using a gold gate electrode for measurement, with accuracy higher than 90% in both LDA and SVM models. We also explored the sensing mechanisms and found that the change in NTFET off current was crucial for classification. The fabricated sensors successfully detect BV-related factors, demonstrating the competitive advantage of NTFET for point-of-care diagnostics of BV.
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