Strong plasmon coupled gold nanoantennas with closed hot-spots enabled ultrasensitive lateral flow immunoassay of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.

Publication date: Nov 01, 2025

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is the etiological agent of porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED), which is an acute and devastating enteric disease in suckling piglets and shows cross-species transmission ability between pigs and humans as well. The accurate and timely detection of PEDV infection is essential for the control and prevention of viral transmission and outbreaks. Here, a strong plasmon coupled gold nanoantennas have been developed by Ag induced gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) assembly for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) integrated lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) toward rapid and ultrasensitive determination of PEDV. The nanoantennas own sub-nm interparticle gaps, where showing a 1. 26 cD710-fold improvement of the electromagnetic Raman enhancement (|E|/|E|) compared with the AuNPs. The sub-nm gaps are a novel kind of closed SERS “hot spot”, which can block large size molecule like antibody and BSA from entering gaps and replacing Raman dyes inside. The established gold nanoantennas based SERS-LFIA exhibited high sensitivity with limits of detection (LOD) as low as 1. 0 cD7 10 and 1. 0 TCID/mL according to naked eye observation and SERS detection, respectively. The SERS signal was linearly related to the PEDV concentration in the range of 1. 0 cD7 10 to 1. 0 cD7 10^0 TCID/mL, with a linear equation of y = 3560 x+1843 (R = 0. 99916). The established assay shows excellent specificity, reproducibility, and stability. The recovery rate of standardly added clinical samples was 94. 91 %-102. 07 %. Therefore, the gold nanoantennas based SERS-LFIA have great potential for the rapid and sensitive determination of PEDV, which will facilitate the disease diagnosis and prevention.

Concepts Keywords
Bioelectron Animals
Diarrhea Antibodies, Immobilized
Pigs Antibodies, Immobilized
Timely Biosensing Techniques
Viral Coronavirus Infections
Gold
Gold
Gold nanoantennas
Immunoassay
Lateral flow immunoassay
Limit of Detection
Metal Nanoparticles
Silver
Silver
Spectrum Analysis, Raman
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Swine
Swine Diseases

Semantics

Type Source Name
drug DRUGBANK Gold
disease MESH infection
disease IDO assay
disease MESH Coronavirus Infections
drug DRUGBANK Silver
disease MESH Swine Diseases

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