Table 4. Targets of pathogenic parasites for development of specific aptamers.

Type of parasites	Aptamer	Target	Method
Trypanosoma cruzi [11]	Apt68	Mammalian stage trypomastigotes	Streptavidin paramagnetic beads coated with biotinylated Apt68
Leishmania [28]	LmWC-25R; LmHSP 7b/11R	Leishmania promastigote protein extracts	Fluorescent enzyme-linked DNA aptamer-magnetic bead sandwich assay
Plasmodium for malaria [30]	P38 or NG3	Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase and plasmodium falciparum glutamate dehydrogenase	Dye coupled aptamer-captured enzyme catalysed reaction