Sensors for Toxic and Pathogen Detection

Dear Colleagues,

The monitoring of pathogens and toxins is one of the key issues in understanding and managing hazards to human health and safety. Pathogen contaminants have mild to severe short-term or long term effect and some of them even have deadly effects and lead to widespread havoc. Very strict legislation is implemented in areas such as the food industry, in order to prevent the terrible consequences of pathogen and toxins. Although, there has been a great deal of interest in developing techniques for the monitoring of pathogens, there is still great demand for portable, decentralized and highly robust assays. In this context, biosensors have achieved intense significance because of their capability to resolve a potentially large number of problems and challenges in pathogen contamination. A biosensor is a compact analytical device incorporating a biorecognition element as the sensing element, either integrated within or intimately associated with a physiochemical transducer surface. This Special Issue aims to promote new trends in the area of pathogen detection and recent designs in the field of pathogen and toxins biosensors.

We would like to invite you to participate in this Special Issue by submitting both original research papers and review articles on biosensors for pathogen and toxin detection.

Prof. Jean-Louis Marty
Prof. Silvana Andreescu
Dr Akhtar Hayat
Guest Editors

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