Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has the potential to provide typing results and detect resistance genes in a single assay, thus guiding timely treatment decisions and allowing rapid tracking of transmission of resistant clones. We evaluated the performance of a new NGS assay (Hospital Acquired Infection BioDetection System; Pathogenica) during an outbreak of sequence type 131 (ST131) Escherich...

Submitted for the MAR10 Meeting of The American Physical Society An integrated nanopore-nanochannel system for biodetection: longitudinally-displaced transverse nanoelectrodes along a nanochannel1 XINSHENG SEAN LING, Brown University — In this talk, I’ll describe a novel device concept for a biodetection system with combined characteristics of nanopores and nanochannels. Solid-state nanopores d...

Chemokines are a class of cytokine whose special properties, together with their involvement and relevant role in various diseases, make them restricted group biomarkers suitable for diagnosis monitoring. Despite importance, biodetection techniques dedicated to the selective determination one or more chemokines very scarce. For some years now, critical inflammatory diseases by detecting both ch...

A report is presented on the biodetection capabilities of plasmonic terahertz detectors. Large changes in the terahertz response of plasmonic detectors loaded with solutions of globulin-free bovine serum albumin, arginine and heparin were measured for concentrations that did affect the device transfer characteristics. The consistent change of the response characteristics with specimen type and ...

microcantilevers (mcls) are cost-effective and highly sensitive devices for biodetection. adsorption of specific analytes on the microcantilever surface causes the bending of mcl through changing of the surface characteristics. these new bioprobes designed in a way that one side of the microcantilever surface is coated with a selective receptor that absorbs particular molecules. after surface a...

An improved portable detector for biological compounds, the chemiluminescence multichannel immunosensor (CL-MADAG), has been developed and characterised. The device is based on a capillary ELISA technique in combination with a miniaturised fluidics system and uses chemiluminescence as the detection principle. The fluidics system construction allows three chemiluminescence immunoassays to be per...

Asymmetric microsphere resonant cavities (ARCs) allow for free-space coupling to high quality (Q) whispering gallery modes (WGMs) while exhibiting highly directional light emission, enabling WGM resonance measurements in the far-field. These remarkable characteristics make "stand-off" biodetection in which no coupling device is required in near-field contact with the resonator possible. Here we...