Title :
Diseño de un biosensor gravimétrico utilizando deposición de capas de polielectrolitos para detección de tuberculosis
Author :
Pelaez Gutierrez, Cristina ; Garcia Fox, Alejandro ; del Portillo, Patricia ; Herrera Sandoval, Oscar L.
Author_Institution :
Centro de Investig. y Desarrollo de la Industria Electro-Electron. e Inf. - e CIDEI, Bogota, Colombia
Abstract :
The immobilization of specific molecules for tuberculosis on multilayers of polyelectrolytes, in combination with gravimetric detection techniques, are presented as a new method for the detection of tuberculosis from latency, with the potential to be a quick alternative and inexpensive method for the in situ detection of the disease.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; biosensors; diseases; polymer electrolytes; polymer films; gravimetric biosensor design; polyelectrolyte layers deposition; tuberculosis detection; Biosensors; Immune system; Laboratories; Microscopy; Nonhomogeneous media; Silicon compounds; Surface treatment; QCM; biosensado; detección in-situ; técnica de capa por capa; técnicas gravimétricas; tuberculosis;
Conference_Titel :
Sensors (IBERSENSOR), 2014 IEEE 9th Ibero-American Congress on
Conference_Location :
Bogota
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6835-0
DOI :
10.1109/IBERSENSOR.2014.6995550