Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused public and global health crises. However, the lack of on-site fast, reliable, sensitive, and low-cost reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing limits early detection, timely isolation, and epidemic prevention and control. Here, the authors report a rapid mobile efficient diagnostics of infectious diseases via on-chip -RT-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR): MEDIC-PCR. First, the authors use a roll-to-roll printing process to accomplish low-cost carbon-black-based disposable PCR chips that enable rapid LED-induced photothermal PCR cycles. The MEDIC-PCR can perform RT (3 min), and PCR (9 min) steps. Further, the cohort of 89 COVID-19 and 103 non-COVID-19 patients testing is completed by the MEDIC-PCR to show excellent diagnostic accuracy of 97%, sensitivity of 94%, and specificity of 98%. This MEDIC-PCR can contribute to the preventive global health in the face of a future pandemic.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 2302072 |
Journal | Advanced Science |
Volume | 10 |
Issue number | 28 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 6 Oct 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Keywords
- covid-19
- diagnostics
- low-cost
- rapid
- rt-qpcr