Novel Sensing Technologies for Rapid Identification of Microorganisms

摘要

When human beings, animals and plants are incidentally infected by pathogenic microorganisms, their endangerments to individual and public health are often shocking. In order to prevent and avoid these disasters, it is a great urgency to understand the characteristics of these microorganisms in depth and to develop novel sensing technologies zealously for creating rapid detection and identification methods. Because pathogenic microorganisms include various species, this article will focus on the introduction of bacteria and fungi. Then, we will systematically introduce five major sensing technologies, which are biosensors, molecular biological techniques, immunoserologic methods, dielectrophoretic chips and spectroscopy instruments. Furthermore, we will explicitly dissect their important detection principles, applications of microorganisms identification, current state of the art, future trends and prospectives.