Triple lines gold nanoparticle-based lateral flow assay for enhanced and simultaneous detection of Leishmania DNA and endogenous control

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3704-3714

  Rivas, Lourdes ^a,b   de la Escosura Muñiz, Alfredo ^a   Serrano, Lorena ^b   Altet, Laura ^b   Francino, Olga ^b   Sánchez, Armand ^b,c   Merkoçi, Arben ^a,d  

^a CATALAN INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ICN2   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGRICULTURAL GENOMICS CRAG   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

endogenous control; gold nanoparticles; lateral flow assay; Leishmania DNA; secondary antibodies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946491831     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0870-3     Document Type: Article

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