“…Even though ELISA certainly is one of the most widespread and popular kind of immunoassays, immunochromatographic assays are better suited for on-site rapid applications. The large number of scientific publications in the diagnostic (Andreo et al, 2006;Mens et al, 2008), medical (Lin et al, 2008;Omidfar et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2011), veterinary (Noguera et al, 2011), drug of abuse (Gandhi et al, 2009), environmental (Blažková et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2003;Zhou et al, 2010), and food safety areas (Anfossi et al, 2011;Aldus et al, 2003;Tang et al, 2009;Zhang et al, 2011;Zhou et al, 2009), well illustrates the prominent position that immunochromatographic methods have attained in the analytical field as portable point-ofcare devices in recent years (Posthuma-Trumpie et al, 2008).…”