Detecting Biological Warfare Agents

Abstract

We developed a fiber-optic, microsphere-based, high-density array composed of 18 species-specific probe microsensors to identify biological warfare agents. We simultaneously identified multiple biological warfare agents in environmental samples by looking at specific probe responses after hybridization and response patterns of the multiplexed array.

Keywords

• DNA microarray
• fiber optics
• microsphere
• biological warfare
• fluorescence
• dispatch