State of the Art in Breath Analysis for Disease Diagnosis and Exposure Assessment: Challenges and Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

Breath analysis has great potential to offer non-invasive diagnostic tests for preventive screening and early detection of disease, monitoring the effectiveness of proposed therapies or assessment of a person's exposure to environmental pollutants. The ease of breath sampling that does not require patient transfer to hospitals and other health facilities is also attractive. Such tests are in demand in medicine, especially for diseases where early diagnosis is directly related to the effectiveness of treatment. However, despite its attractiveness and advantages, the strong biochemical rationale underlying this diagnostic approach and exuberance of research activity in the field for about twenty years, breath tests are still not approved and applied in routine clinical practice. The main goal of this Special Issue is to present studies that reveal and address the existing challenges and propose new solutions for different aspects of breath test development and applications, e.g. breath sampling, instrumental analysis, analysis strategies, data treatment.  

Prof. Dr. Andreas Tsakalof
Guest Editor

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