Ultrasensitive Electrochemical Dnazyme Based Sensing Platform for Clinical Detection of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli

摘要

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most ubiquitous bacterial infection diseases affecting half of the global population at least once in their lifetime. Given the occurrence of the false positive result in Dipstics and the time-consuming identification of bacteria using culturing method to detect UroPathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), there is the need for a point-of-care diagnostic platform that is reliable, sensitive, specific, cost-effective, fast and easy to use. With the advent electrochemical methods coupled with the specific biorecognition elements, the detection of any biomarker has become possible with one touch. Among many biorecognition molecules, DNAzymes are gaining attention due to their robustness, stability, specificity, and the ease of selection without prior knowledge of the biomarker. Their structure switching and functionality (RNA cleaving) can be utilized with redox active species (like methylene blue) to design highly sensitive and selective electrochemical assays for pathogen detection.