Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused large suffering worldwide. Individual, point-of-care testing, although effective, is time-consuming, costly and biased towards patients with COVID symptoms. To address this, Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE) was implemented globally as an early-warning system, providing unbiased and comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 testing of whole communities. However, it still relies on expensive and time-consuming lab-based PCR measurements. To fully unravel WBE's potential as a rapid community testing-tool, new low-cost, rapid and reliable sensors are needed. We report the development of an RT-LAMP handheld system, integrating a continuous-flow microfluidic PCB-chip along with low-cost circuitry enabling real-time fluorescence-detection of SARS-CoV-2 within 10 minutes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMicroTAS 2022 - 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences
PublisherChemical and Biological Microsystems Society
Pages642-643
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781733419048
Publication statusPublished - 27 Oct 2022
Event26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2022 - Hybrid, Hangzhou, China
Duration: 23 Oct 202227 Oct 2022

Publication series

NameMicroTAS 2022 - 26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Conference

Conference26th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHybrid, Hangzhou
Period23/10/2227/10/22

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Financial support was provided by Research England QR GCRF and EPSRC Impact Acceleration

Funding

Financial support was provided by Research England QR GCRF and EPSRC Impact Acceleration

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Lab-on-Chip
  • Lab-on-PCB
  • LAMP
  • Point-of-Use
  • rapid test
  • wastewater-based epidemiology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
  • Bioengineering
  • General Chemistry
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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