Enhancement of the detection limit for lateral flow immunoassays: Evaluation and comparison of bioconjugates

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 375, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 264-270

  Linares, Elisângela M ^a   Kubota, Lauro T ^b   Michaelis, Jens ^c   Thalhammer, Stefan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon black; Dengue fever; Gold nanoparticles; Lateral flow immunoassay

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BLUE LATEX BEAD NANOPARTICLE; CARBON BLACK NANOPARTICLE; COLLOIDAL GOLD; ENHANCED GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NANOPARTICLE; NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; POLYSTYRENE; SILVER NANOPARTICLE; STREPTAVIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOTINYLATION; COLORIMETRY; DENGUE VIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; IMMUNOASSAY; LATERAL FLOW IMMUNOASSAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; VIRUS DETECTION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOTIN; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GOLD COLLOID; IMMUNOASSAY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILVER; SOOT; STREPTAVIDIN; VIRAL NONSTRUCTURAL PROTEINS;

DENGUE VIRUS;

EID: 84855354214     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: 18727905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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