Piezoelectric Biosensor for Detection of Salmonella typhimurium

Abstract
A flow injection analysis (FIA) system was developed based on a piezoelectric biosensor for detection of Salmonella typhimurium. The anti‐Salmonella spp antibody was immobilized onto the gold electrode coated quartz crystal surface through a polyethylenimine‐glutaraldehyde (PEG) technique and dithiobis‐succinimidyl propionate (DSP) coupling. The PEG technique proved more successful for FIA applications than the DSP coupling. The biosensor had responses of 23–7 Hz in 25 min when the PEG immobilization technique was employed, with R20.94 for Salmonella typhimurium concentrations of 5.3.105 to 1.2.109 CFU/mL.