Design of Sensing Device for Detection of Disease in Bovine, Avian and Caprine

Abstract

A low cost hand-held ZnO based sensing device has been successfully designed for testing blood serum of bovine (cow), avian (poultry) and caprine (goat) to diagnose their health of liver and kidney by detecting four biological parameters in-situ. Nanostructured Zinc oxide (ZnO) solution is synthesized using the chemical bath deposition method. Using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), the size of ZnO nanoparticles were determined. It shows a hexagonal wurtzite structure with an orientation along the direction (101) .The size of ZnO nanoparticle is 0.004nm as obtained from XRD. ZnO based sensing device is designed with the help of Arduino and Microsoft visual basic 6.0 version software. The resistance of blood serum is taken into consideration for carrying out the experiment. It has been measured after adding (1µl) ZnO to (1ml) of blood serum to detect four biological parameters – Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT), Serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine of bovine, avian and caprine more precisely. The device can indicate whether the blood serum of bovine, avian and caprine have normal/diseased parameters. This device will also help the veterinarians in the field.