A highly sensitive and quantitative time resolved fluorescent microspheres lateral flow immunoassay for streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin in milk, honey, muscle, liver, and kidney

Abstract

Streptomycin (STR) and dihydrostreptomycin (DHSTR) are clinically widely used in the prevention and treatment of animal diseases. Unreasonable use or abuse can easily cause adverse effects on human health. Thus, it is very necessary to establish a rapid detection method for STR and DHSTR in animal-derived foods. In this study, a time-resolved fluorescent microspheres lateral flow immunoassay (TRFM-LFIA) integrated with a portable fluorescence reader was developed for STR and DHSTR detection. The cut-off values of the TRFM-LFIA for STR and DHSTR in milk/honey/muscle/liver/kidney were both 30/15/80/25/60 μg kg−1, respectively, the limits of detection were 1.10/0.28/2.82/1.52/3.02, 0.75/0.23/1.76/1.21/2.35 μg kg−1, respectively, and the limits of quantitation were 3.62/0.93/9.31/5.02/9.96, 2.48/0.76/5.81/3.99/7.76 μg kg−1, respectively. The recoveries ranged from 80.0% to 120.1%, with coefficient of variation from 2.8% to 14.3%, respectively. The parallel experiment of 25 samples showed excellent correlation (R2 > 0.99) between ELISA kit and TRFM-LFIA. The sample pretreatment is very simple, and the results can be achieved in 8 min. This sensitive, simple, rapid and portable analysis strategy can provide universal technical support for the residue detection of veterinary drugs and even small molecular hazard factors.