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Diagnostic applications of microsphere-based flow cytometry: A review

2022; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 247; Issue: 20 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/15353702221113856

1535-3702

Adélia Marques de Figueiredo, Juliane Corrêa Glória, Yury Oliveira Chaves, Walter Luiz Lima Neves, Luís André Morais Mariúba,

Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Microsphere-based flow cytometry is a highly sensitive emerging technology for specific detection and clinical analysis of antigens, antibodies, and nucleic acids of interest. In this review, studies that focused on the application of flow cytometry as a viable alternative for the investigation of infectious diseases were analyzed. Many of the studies involve research aimed at epidemiological surveillance, vaccine candidates and early diagnosis, non-infectious diseases, specifically cancer, and emphasize the simultaneous detection of biomarkers for early diagnosis, with accurate results in a non-invasive approach. The possibility of carrying out multiplexed assays affords this technique high versatility and performance, which is evidenced in a series of clinical studies that have verified the ability to detect several molecules in low concentrations and with minimal sample volume. As such, we demonstrate that microsphere-based flow cytometry presents itself as a promising technique that can be adopted as a fundamental element in the development of new diagnostic methods for a number of diseases.