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Integrated Electrochemical Biosensors for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens in Low-Resource Settings

RAINBOW, J. SEDLÁČKOVÁ, E. JIANG, S. MAXTED, G. MOSCHOU, D. RICHTERA, L. ESTRELA, P.

Originální název

Integrated Electrochemical Biosensors for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens in Low-Resource Settings

Typ

článek v časopise ve Web of Science, Jimp

Jazyk

angličtina

Originální abstrakt

More than 783 million people worldwide are currently without access to clean and safe water. Approximately 1 in 5 cases of mortality due to waterborne diseases involve children, and over 1.5 million cases of waterborne disease occur every year. In the developing world, this makes waterborne diseases the second highest cause of mortality. Such cases of waterborne disease are thought to be caused by poor sanitation, water infrastructure, public knowledge, and lack of suitable water monitoring systems. Conventional laboratory-based techniques are inadequate for effective on-site water quality monitoring purposes. This is due to their need for excessive equipment, operational complexity, lack of affordability, and long sample collection to data analysis times. In this review, we discuss the conventional techniques used in modern-day water quality testing. We discuss the future challenges of water quality testing in the developing world and how conventional techniques fall short of these challenges. Finally, we discuss the development of electrochemical biosensors and current research on the integration of these devices with microfluidic components to develop truly integrated, portable, simple to use and cost-effective devices for use by local environmental agencies, NGOs, and local communities in low-resource settings.

Klíčová slova

electrochemical biosensors; low-resource settings; point-of-care; in-situ monitoring; microbial pollution; low and middle-income countries (LMICs)

Autoři

RAINBOW, J.; SEDLÁČKOVÁ, E.; JIANG, S.; MAXTED, G.; MOSCHOU, D.; RICHTERA, L.; ESTRELA, P.

Vydáno

30. 4. 2020

Nakladatel

MDPI

ISSN

2079-6374

Periodikum

Biosensors

Ročník

10

Číslo

4

Stát

Švýcarská konfederace

Strany od

1

Strany do

36

Strany počet

36

URL

https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/10/4/36

Plný text v Digitální knihovně

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/194776

BibTex

@article{BUT164249,
  author="Joshua {Rainbow} and Eliška {Dostálová} and Shu {Jiang} and Grace {Maxted} and Despina {Moschou} and Lukáš {Richtera} and Pedro {Estrela}",
  title="Integrated Electrochemical Biosensors for Detection of Waterborne Pathogens in Low-Resource Settings",
  journal="Biosensors",
  year="2020",
  volume="10",
  number="4",
  pages="1--36",
  doi="10.3390/bios10040036",
  issn="2079-6374",
  url="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/10/4/36"
}