Chapter 2 - Nano-realm for point-of-care (POC) bacterial diagnostics

Publication date: 2019Source: Methods in Microbiology, Volume 46Author(s): Bandhan Chatterjee, Neeti Kalyani, Soonjyoti Das, Anjali Anand, Tarun Kumar SharmaAbstractThe omnipresence of bacterial pathogens poses a grave danger for human survival on earth, the spectre justified in periodical WHO reports, where bacterial borne diseases maintain their share of infamy, claiming the leading cause of mortality around the globe. Given the current status of therapeutic advances, many of these life endangering diseases can be cured if diagnosed accurately and on time. So, the onus of saving lives now leans more towards having timely and precise diagnostics, whose immediate need is further bolstered by the abysmal health care infrastructure around half of the globe. With the advent of nanotechnology, development of materials with de novo properties (otherwise absent in their bulk counterparts) provide us with extraordinary opportunities to devise diagnostics which previously seemed implausible. Concurrent advancement in other spheres of science accentuates the phenomenon and makes it plausible to devise various POC diagnostic assays that are rapid, sensitive and affordable.
Source: Methods in Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Source Type: research