title: Ultrasensitive detection of microbial cells using magnetic focus enhanced lateral flow sensors.
abstract: We report on an improved lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) sensor with a magnetic focus for ultrasensitive naked-eye detection of pathogenic microorganisms at a near single cell limit without any pre-enrichment steps, by allowing the magnetic probes to focus the labelled pathogens to the target zone of the LF strip.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue Center for Cancer research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. josephi@purdue.edu.
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Il-Hoon
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Zhongwu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Irudayaraj
mesh_terms: D057230:Limit of Detection; D008280:Magnetics; D064307:Microbiota