Magnetic nanoclusters increase the sensitivity of lateral flow immunoassays for protein detection: application to pneumolysin as a biomarker for Streptococcus pneumoniae

This work was partially funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under project MCI-20-EIN2020-112354 and the Principality of Asturias (Spain) under projects FICYT/IDI/2021/000100 and FICYT/IDI/2021/000273. M.S. was supported by a “Severo Ochoa” fellowship (Consejería de Educación y Cultura del Gobierno del Principado de Asturias, grant BP19- 141). She also thanks the University of Oviedo, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and Banco Santander for grant CEI15-24. J.L.M. was supported by the University Technological Institute of Asturias (IUTA) under grant SV-21-GIJON-03. The work of A.B. and R.T. was funded by the Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, Core Project PN-19-35-02-03