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Image: Representative non-reactive (A), strongly reactive (B) and weakly reactive (C) Dual Path Platform (DPP) assay results for leptospirosis (Photo courtesy of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation).

Dual Path Platform Assay Evaluated for Leptospirosis

Leptospirosis is an important global cause of acute fever and a leading cause of morbidity among zoonotic diseases and annually, more than one million cases and 50,000 deaths occur worldwide. More...
08 Mar 2018
Image: The Maverick portable quadruplex PCR system (Photo courtesy of Anitoa Systems).

Portable Quadruplex PCR System Unveiled

An early-access program for a portable real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction system has been launched. The platform weighs one kilogram and can run quadruplex qPCR on each of four samples simultaneously. More...
08 Mar 2018
Image: Detection in saliva of Zika virus using reverse-transcription LAMP coupled with reverse dot blot analysis (Photo courtesy of New York University College of Dentistry).

Rapid Salivary Test Developed for Zika Virus

Early pathogen identification is necessary to combat the spread of newly emerging and re-emerging epidemics. More...
07 Mar 2018
Image: The sciFLEXARRAYER system is an ultra-low volume dispensing systems (Photo courtesy of SCIENION).

Immunoassay Monitors Parasite Persistence in Chagas Disease

The Trypanosoma cruzi parasite is the causative agent of Chagas disease, and infects about six million individuals in more than 20 countries. Monitoring parasite persistence in infected individuals is of utmost importance to develop and evaluate treatments to control the disease. More...
01 Mar 2018
Image: Rings of Plasmodium falciparum in a stained thin blood smear (Photo courtesy of the CDC).

AKI Biomarker Described for Pediatric Malaria

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important complication in severe malaria that is associated with increased mortality in both pediatric and adult populations. However, until recently, the incidence of AKI in pediatric malaria was under-appreciated as few children develop signs of overt renal failure and creatinine testing is not routinely available in resource-constrained settings. More...
28 Feb 2018
Image: A newly developed blood test detects pathogens carried by ticks such as this hard-bodied tick of the family Ixodidae (Photo courtesy of the CDC).

Blood Test Designed for Multiple Tick-borne Diseases

A novel blood test for the simultaneous diagnosis of multiple tick-borne diseases has been developed and shown to discriminate antibody responses to eight major tick-borne pathogens present in the United States. More...
27 Feb 2018
Image: The Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer is a distinctive analysis tool capable of handling cells, proteins and nucleic acids on a single platform (Photo courtesy of Agilent Technologies).

Next-Gen Sequencing of CSF Diagnoses Neurobrucellosis

Brucellosis is the most common zoonotic infection in the world with more than 500,000 new cases are reported annually worldwide. It is a multisystem infection, with variable clinical presentations and brucellosis with nervous system involvement is known as Neurobrucellosis (NB). More...
21 Feb 2018
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