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ANALYST
Volume 139, Issue 5, Pages 1063-1071Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3an02059b
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Existing technologies for analysis of microbiological contaminants in food or clinical samples are often expensive and require laboratory settings and trained personnel. Here we present a lateral flow assay employing gold nanoparticle-oligodeoxynucleotide conjugates and four-component sandwich hybridisation for direct detection of specific sequences in bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA. Combined with rapid one step lysis the developed procedure allows detection of 5 x 10(4) colony forming units per mL Escherichia coli within less than 25 minutes. Several Escherichia coli strains were detected successfully, whereas non-related as well as closely related bacterial species produced no signal. The developed nucleic acid lateral flow assay is inexpensive, rapid to perform and requires no nucleic acid amplification step.
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