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Foodborne Pathogen Screening Using Magneto-fluorescent Nanosensor: Rapid Detection of E. Coli O157:H7
Published on: September 17, 2017
High-throughput, highly sensitive and rapid SERS detection of Escherichia coli O157:H7 using aptamer-modified
Xiu Wang1, Wei Li2, Shijie Dai1
1School of Food Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.
Abstract:
The aim of this research was to develop a simple, rapid, sensitive, high-throughput detection method for foodborne Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157:H7 based on the aptamer-modified gold nanoparticles@macroporous magnetic silica photonic microsphere (Au@MMSPM). Such Au@MMSPM array system for E. coli O157:H7 not only integrated sample pretreatment with rapid detection, but also showed highly enhanced effect to develop a highly sensitive SERS assay. The established SERS assay platform gave a wide linear detection range (10-106 CFU/mL) and low limit of detection (2.20 CFU/mL) for E. coli O157:H7. The whole analysis time including sample pretreatment and detection was 110 min. This SERS-based assay platform provided a new high-throughput, highly sensitive and fast detection technology for monitoring E. coli O157:H7 in real samples from the fields of food industry, medicine and environment.

