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Piezoelectric Quartz crystal/antibody Bacillus anthracis 5 200 (Branch and Brozik, 2004)

Piezoelectric Cantilever/antibody E. coli O157:H7 10 10 (Maraldo and Mutharasan,

2007)

Piezoelectric Cantilever/antibody E. coli O157:H7 --- 1 (Campbell and Mutharasan,

2007)

5 × 10 3

Magnetoelastic METGLAS/bacteriophage Salmonella

typhimurium

--- (Lakshmanan et al., 2007)

1 × 10 3 Magnetoelastic Iron-boron particle/bacteriophage Bacillus anthracis --- (Wan et al., 2007)

Viruses

5 × 10 6 Resonance

frequency

Quartz crystal/antibody M13 phage --- (Uttenthaler et al., 2001)

1.5 × 10 10 Electrochemical Paramagnetic beads/antibody Bacteriophage MS2 ~7 (Thomas et al., 2004)

Optical/electrical Silicon nanowire/antibody Influenza A 5 50 (Patolsky et al., 2004)

Optical Polythiophene/nucleic acid Influenza A 30 2 (Dore et al., 2004)

Resonance
frequency

Silicon cantilever/spores Vaccinia --- 1 (Gupta et al., 2004)

Protozoa

1 × 10 2 Optical Self-assembled monolayer/antibody Cryptosporidium 30 (Kang et al., 2006)

1 × 10 6 Optical Fiberoptics/antibody Cryptosporidium 15 (Kramer et al., 2007)

Piezoelectric Piezoelectric cantilever/antibody Cryptosporidium 1 100 (Campbell and Mutharasan,

2008)

* CFU = colony forming units; and PFU = plaque forming units.