Fully Integrated Microfluidic Digital Chip for Simple and Highly Quantitative Detection of Norovirus.

Anal Chem

Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States.

Published: November 2024

The prevalence of foodborne illnesses is a significant global concern, resulting in numerous illnesses, deaths, and substantial economic losses annually. Traditional detection methods for foodborne pathogens are often slow, limited, and impractical for field use, underscoring the need for rapid, sensitive, and portable assays. Microfluidic technology has emerged as a promising solution for sample preparation, reaction, and detection on a small scale. Our study introduces a novel microfluidic digital loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay platform, which employs digital microfluidic chips for absolute quantitative analysis of nucleic acids. This portable chip utilizes LAMP technology to achieve ultrasensitive detection of target nucleic acids within 30 min and reduces the detection limit to 1 fM without the need for complex instrumentation. By digitizing amplification signals directly from the target sample, our platform offers simplicity, affordability, portability, and quantitative molecular readouts. This innovation represents a crucial step toward the on-site detection of foodborne pathogens, thereby enhancing food safety and mitigating disease outbreaks.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.4c03152DOI Listing

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