Community Sewage Sensors towards Evaluation of Drug Use Trends: Detection of Cocaine in Wastewater with DNA-Directed Immobilization Aptamer Sensors

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Yang, Zhugen ^a,b,c   Castrignanò, Erika ^a   Estrela, Pedro ^b   Frost, Christopher G ^a   Kasprzyk Hordern, Barbara ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTAMER; COCAINE; IMMOBILIZED NUCLEIC ACID; SEWAGE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; WASTE WATER;

CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WASTE WATER;

APTAMERS, NUCLEOTIDE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COCAINE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZED NUCLEIC ACIDS; SEWAGE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84958267845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21024     Document Type: Article

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