Aptasensors as the Future of Antibiotics Test Kits-A Case Study of the Aptamer Application in the Chloramphenicol Detection

Publication date: Available online 18 September 2018Source: Biosensors and BioelectronicsAuthor(s): Zahra Khoshbin, Asma Verdian, Mohammad Reza Housaindokht, Mohammad Izadyar, Zeinab RouhbakhshAbstractAntibiotics are a type of antimicrobial drug with the ubiquitous presence in foodstuff that effectively applied to treat the diseases and promote the animal growth worldwide. Chloramphenicol as one of the antibiotics with the broad action spectrum against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria is widely applied for the effective treatment of infectious diseases in humans and animals. Unfortunately, the serious side effects of chloramphenicol, such as aplastic anemia, kidney damage, nausea, and diarrhea restrict its application in foodstuff and biomedical fields. Development of the sufficiently sensitive methods to detect chloramphenicol residues in food and clinical diagnosis seems to be an essential demand. Biosensors have been introduced as the promising tools to overcome the requirement. As one of the newest types of the biosensors, aptamer-based biosensors (aptasensors) are the efficient sensing platforms for the chloramphenicol monitoring. In the present review, we summarize the recent achievements of the accessible aptasensors for qualitative detection and quantitative determination of chloramphenicol as a candidate of the antibiotics. The present chloramphenicol aptasensors can be classified in two main optical and electrochemical categories. Also, the other formats of ...
Source: Biosensors and Bioelectronics - Category: Biotechnology Source Type: research