An accurate, high-speed, portable bifunctional electrical detector for COVID-19.
Sci China Mater
; 64(3): 739-747, 2021.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1060838
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by SARS-CoV-2, has rapidly spread and caused a severe global pandemic. Because no specific drugs are available for COVID-19 and few vaccines are available for SARS-CoV-2, accurate and rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 has been the most crucial measure to control this pandemic. Here, we developed a portable bifunctional electrical detector based on graphene fieldeffect transistors for SARS-CoV-2 through either nucleic acid hybridization or antigen-antibody protein interaction, with ultra-low limits of detection of ~0.1 and ~1 fg mL-1 in phosphate buffer saline, respectively. We validated our method by assessment of RNA extracts from the oropharyngeal swabs of ten COVID-19 patients and eight healthy subjects, and the IgM/IgG antibodies from serum specimens of six COVID-19 patients and three healthy subjects. Here we show that the diagnostic results are in excellent agreement with the findings of polymerase chain reaction-based optical methods; they also exhibit rapid detection speed (~10 min for nucleic acid detection and ~5 min for immunoassay). Therefore, our assay provides an efficient, accurate tool for high-throughput point-of-care testing. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL:
Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at 10.1007/s40843-020-1577-y.
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Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci China Mater
Year:
2021
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Article
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