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New article: Multiplexed Colorimetric Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus and Bartonella DNA using Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

Article: Mancuso, M; Jiang, L; Cesarman, E; Erickson, D(2013). “Multiplexed Colorimetric Detection of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated Herpesvirus and Bartonella DNA using Gold and Silver Nanoparticles.” 5(4):1678-1686.

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Abstract: Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is an infectious cancer occurring most commonly in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients and in endemic regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, where KS is among the top four most prevalent cancers. The cause of KS is the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV, also called HHV-8), an oncogenic herpesvirus that while routinely diagnosed in developed nations, provides challenges to developing world medical providers and point-of-care detection. A major challenge in the diagnosis of KS is the existence of a number of other diseases with similar clinical presentation and histopathological features, requiring the detection of KSHV in a biopsy sample. In this work we develop an answer to this challenge by creating a multiplexed one-pot detection system for KSHV DNA and DNA from a frequently confounding disease, bacillary angiomatosis. Gold and silver nanoparticle aggregation reactions are tuned for each target and a multi-color change system is developed capable of detecting both targets down to levels between 1 nM and 2 nM. The system developed here could later be integrated with microfluidic sample processing to create a final device capable of solving the two major challenges in point-of-care KS detection.

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