An ultrasensitive electrochemical genosensor for Brucella based on palladium nanoparticles.

Palladium nanoparticles were potentiostatically electrodeposited on a gold surface at a highly negative potential. The nanostructure, as a transducer, was utilized to immobilize a Brucella-specific probe and the process of immobilization and hybridization was detected by electrochemical methods. The proposed method for detection of the complementary sequence and a non-complementary sequence was applied. The fabricated genosensor was evaluated for the assay of the bacteria in the cultured and human samples with and without PCR. The genosensor could detect the complementary sequence with a sensitivity of 0.02 μA dm(3) mol(-1), a linear concentration range of 1.0 × 10(-12) to 1.0 × 10(-19) mol dm(-3), and a detection limit of 2.7 × 10(-20) mol dm(-3).