Table 1.

Summary of previous review articles addressing the microfluidic-based bacterial nucleic acid (NA) amplification approaches in chronological order.

Main Focus of the Review	Year
Review of few studies reporting microfabrication of PCR in microbiology [37]	2007
A comprehensive review paper of miniaturized isothermal nucleic acid amplification [38]	2011
A review on the general use of microfluidics in bacterial pathogens monitoring with less focus on amplification methods [39]	2014
A review of works based on centrifugal microfluidic platforms for NA detection and amplification in microbial samples [28]	2015
A review of a few studies on microfluidic PCR for bacterial pathogens identification [40]	2015
A comprehensive and systematic review of loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based microfluidics for pathogenic nucleic acid detection [32]	2016
A review of microfluidics based microbial engineering with a brief explanation of bacterial genotyping [19]	2016
A review of general PCR microfluidic devices [20]	2016
A review describing applications of droplet microfluidics in microbiology [41]	2016
A comprehensive review focusing on detection of microorganisms using microfluidic-based analytical approaches [42]	2018
A review of a few studies on micro-scale bacterial NA amplification [43]	2018