Blind Spot: A Braille Patterned Novel Multiplex Lateral Flow Immunoassay Sensor Array for the Detection of Biothreat Agents

Blind Spot: A Braille Patterned Novel Multiplex Lateral Flow Immunoassay Sensor Array for the Detection of Biothreat Agents

Lateral flow immunoassays (LFIs) are simple, point-of-care diagnostic devices used for detecting biological agents or other analytes of interest in a sample. LFIs are predominantly singleplex assays, interrogating one target analyte at a time. There is a need for multiplex LFI devices, e.g., a syndr...

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Published in:ACS omega Vol. 6; no. 35; pp. 22700 - 22708
Main Authors: Hofmann, E. Randal, Davidson, Charles, Chen, Hsiu, Zacharko, Melody, Dorton, Jay E, Kilper, Gary K, Graves, Carcie, Miklos, Aleksandr E, Rhea, Katherine, Ma, Joe, Goodwin, Bruce G, Sozhamannan, Shanmuga
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society 07-09-2021
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Summary:Lateral flow immunoassays (LFIs) are simple, point-of-care diagnostic devices used for detecting biological agents or other analytes of interest in a sample. LFIs are predominantly singleplex assays, interrogating one target analyte at a time. There is a need for multiplex LFI devices, e.g., a syndromic panel to differentiate pathogens causing diseases exhibiting similar symptoms. Multiplex LFI devices would be especially valuable in instances where sample quantity is limiting and reducing assay time and costs is critical. There are limitations to the design parameters and performance characteristics of a multiplex LFI assay with many horizontal test lines due to constraints in capillary flow dynamics. To address some of the performance issues, we have developed a spot array multiplex LFI using Braille format (hence called Blind Spot) and a sensor, MACAW (Modular Automated Colorimetric Analyses Widget), that can analyze and interpret the results. As a proof of concept, we created a multiplex toxin panel, for detecting three toxins, using two letter codes for each. The results indicated that the six-plex, triple toxin assay performs as well as singleplex assays. The sensor-based calls are better compared to human interpretation in discriminating and interpreting ambiguous test results correctly especially at lower antigen concentrations and from strips with blemishes.
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ISSN:2470-1343
2470-1343
DOI:10.1021/acsomega.1c02938