Technologies for target detection take on an even larger variety of formats. Older methods include agarose gel electrophoresis, reverse-transcription PCR enzyme hybridization assay [20] [21] [22] and enzyme-linked oligonucleotide capture [18] . More recently, solid-and liquid-phase array platforms have become more useful for the detection of multiple targets. Solid-phase arrays use a variety of formats, typically embedding target-specific oligonucleotides onto a glass or silicon microchip [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] to detect anywhere between dozens to hundreds of thousands of amplified sequences. Several respiratory diagnostic systems have been based on a liquid-phase technology using polystyrene microbeads (Luminex) [9, 10, [13] [14] [15] 32] or mass spectroscopy [33, 34] for amplicon discrimination. Although these approaches have greatly expanded the versatility and sensitivity of multiplex PCR, their complexity, specialized equipment, and high start-up costs have limited their widespread adoption to date. Moreover, these platforms typically require separate steps for amplification and detection, increasing both the workload and the risk of operator error or amplicon contamination.