Aptamers: Novel Molecules as Diagnostic Markers in Bacterial and Viral Infections?

Table 1

Summary of aptamers against bacterial and viral human pathogens.

Aptamers	Type of aptamer	Organism	Target	Reference
NK2	DNA aptamer	Mycobacterium tuberculosis; (strain H37Rv)	Membrane proteins	[23]
33	DNA aptamer	Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	Outer membrane proteins (OMPs)	[25]
S-PS8.4	RNA aptamer	Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	Type IVB pili	[32]
SA20, SA23,  SA31, SA34  and SA43	DNA aptamer	Staphylococcus aureus; (strain MRSA)	Whole bacteria	[33]
ZE2	DNA aptamer	Hepatitis C virus	HCV envelope surface glycoprotein E2	[24]
Sequence (1), aptamer sequence (2), and aptamer sequence (3)	DNA aptamer	Avian influenza virus H5N1	Hemagglutinin	[34]
FO21 and FO24	DNA aptamer	Rabies virus (RABV)	RABV-infected; BHK-21 cells	[35]
A-1 and Ch A-1	RNA aptamer	Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)	gp120	[36]
RT1t49	DNA aptamer	Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)	Viral reverse transcriptase	[37]
70.5, 70.8, 80.55, 80.93 and T1.1	RNA aptamer			[38]
TPK isolates, TPK-like isolates and non-TPK isolates	RNA aptamer			[39]
70.8, 13, 70.15, 80.55, 65, 70.28, 70.28t34 and 1.1	RNA aptamer			[40]
1.1 and 1.3a	RNA aptamer			[41]