Enteric fever continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally, particularly in poor resource settings. Lack of rapid diagnostic assays is a major driving factor for the empirical treatment of enteric fever. In this work, a rapid and sensitive method ‘Miod’ ‘has been developed. Miod includes a magnetic nanoparticle-based enrichment of target bacterial cells, followed by cell lysis and loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) of nucleic acids for signal augmentation along with concurrent measurement of signal via an in–situ optical detection system.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/highly-sensitive-detection-salmonella-typhi-clinical-blood-samples-magnetic
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194817
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/avinash-kaur
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/arti-kapil
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/ravikrishnan-elangovan-et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/plos-one
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