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Real-time detection of airborne infection agents present in human breath and environmental airways, such as the human respiratory Coronavirus, is important for public health. For this, a model label-free immunosensor, based on multi-walled nanotubes (MWNT)-based screen-printed graphite electrodes (SPEs), was proposed and studied. For sensing applications, MWNTs have many advantages such as small size with larger surface area, excellent electron transfer promoting ability when used for antibody immobilization, with retention of its selectivity for potential immunosensors development. In order to verify the selectivity of the selected primary antibody (anti-CoV 229E antibody) and the effective immunocomplex formation (antigen-antibody), an in-depth voltammetric characterization of MWNT-SPEs interface was carried out during the multistep fabrication of CoV immunosensor using [Fe(CN)6]3−/4− as an electroactive probe. After that, the analytical robustness of the performances of these immunosensing platforms was estimated and verified. Indeed, a nanomolar range detection limit (180 TCID50/mL)g/mL) with excellent reproducibility (RSD% = 8%) was obtained.
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This work was partially supported by the Project “SFIDE A SMART FRAMEWORK FOR VIRUS DETECTION”, funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research FISR DD 562/2020 - FONDO INTEGRATIVO SPECIALE PER LA RICERCA, grant # FISR2020IP_02585.
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Cancelliere, R. et al. (2023). Coronavirus Label-Free Immunosensor: Preliminary Results. In: Di Francia, G., Di Natale, C. (eds) Sensors and Microsystems. AISEM 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 999. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25706-3_3
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