Abstract

The ciprofloxacin (CIP) abuse has caused many problems threatening to human health. Here, we design the quantum dot microsphere (QDM) based immunochromatographic quantitative CIP test strip: when the sample under detection contains CIP, the QDM-monoclonal antibody (mAb) probes bound with the CIP and cannot be captured by CIP-bovine serum albumin (BSA) conjugation dispersed on the T lines, reducing the fluorescence intensities. These test strips can provide a low detection limit of 0.05 ng/mL and a wide linear detection range from 0.1 ng/mL to 100 ng/mL in high sensitivity and accuracy as well as good selectivity, reproducibility and stability. Moreover, a smartphone based test strip reader with the size of 85 mm × 48 mm × 44 mm is also fabricated using 3-D printing to automatically and quantitatively detect CIP. The whole process of CIP detection can be finished within 15 min, but only cost ~1 RMB (10 cents).

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