Recent Trends in the Nanotechnology Based Point of Care Tests System for Infectious Diseases

The treatment of infectious diseases to prevent epidemics and mortality is depending on their early diagnosis and it is one of the major health care issues that have an intense impact on humankind. Therefore, the development of diagnostic tools, which should be specific, sensitive, rapid, low-cost, and easy to use, is very necessary. The application of nanotechnology to medical diagnostics called nanodiagnostics, can offer many unique opportunities for more successful and efficient diagnosis and treatment for infectious diseases. For infectious diseases there are so many nanodiagnostics technologies, including cell phone-based polarized light microscopy platform, miniaturized diagnostic magnetic resonance platform, magnetic barcode assay system, cell phone-based dongle platform, and paper-based POCT platform. The limitations, challenges, and future trends of the Nanodiagnostics in POCTs for infectious diseases are the important points to be discussed.