The contamination by foodborne pathogens posed a significant health threat and huge economic burden. Traditional detection methods were limited by cumbersome and time-consuming procedures, low automation, and reliance on expensive instrumentation, making them inadequate for on-site detection. This paper presented a centrifugal microfluidic chip that integrated sample pretreatment, nucleic acid extraction, amplification reaction, and signal detection. The chip featured an innovative design that combined a bursting valve with the siphon channel and employed a dual-channel configuration for splitting and directing the flow of different reagents, thereby overcoming the instability issue of unintended pre-activation or interruption that often occurred in the cascade design of multilevel siphon channels. Moreover, by synergistically combining with immunomagnetic separation as well as multi-enzyme isothermal rapid amplification, a portable, easy, rapid, high-sensitivity, and low-cost point-of-care testing (POCT) system for foodborne pathogens was developed. Under optimized conditions, the system enabled detection of Salmonella in spiked milk samples at 10 CFU/mL in 1 h. The recoveries ranged from 83.22% to 127.60%, with relative standard deviations of ≤13.7%, indicating that this system had great potential for rapid and high-sensitivity detection of foodborne pathogens in resource-limited settings.
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