A team of researchers stand alongside the SARS-CoV-2 wet cyclone aerosol sampler at a lab in Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, the United States. (Photo credit: Washington University in St. Louis)
This device could be used in hospitals and health care facilities, schools and public places to help detect CoV-2 and potentially monitor for other respiratory virus aerosols, such as flu and RSV, according to the study.
LOS ANGELES, July 11 (Xinhua) -- U.S. researchers have created a real-time monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants in a room in about five minutes.
Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis developed the device by combining recent advances in aerosol sampling technology and an ultrasensitive biosensing technique.
The inexpensive, proof-of-concept device could be used in hospitals and health care facilities, schools and public places to help detect CoV-2 and potentially monitor for other respiratory virus aerosols, such as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), according to the study published Monday in Nature Communications.
Widespread adoption of such technology could assist public health officials with implementing rapid disease control measures, according to the study. ■
