“…Optical fibre biosensors have been widely exploited for the detection of a board range of analytical targets, including viruses, spores, bacterial pathogens, pesticides, toxins and other small molecules from clinical and food samples (Bhunia, 2014;Bosch et al, 2007;Liu et al, 2014;Marazuela and Moreno-Bondi, 2002;Urrutia et al, 2015;Velusamy et al, 2010;Wang et al, 2009). The working principle of the optical fibre biosensors and their applications are well known and have been extensively reviewed (Bosch et al, 2007;Chen and Ding, 2013;Marazuela and Moreno-Bondi, 2002;Wang andWolfbeis, 2016, 2013).…”