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Rapid Diagnostic Assay for Ebola Field Tested

Rapid diagnostic methods are essential in control of Ebola outbreaks and lead to timely isolation of cases and improved epidemiologic surveillance, but diagnosis during Ebola outbreaks in West Africa has relied on PCRs performed in laboratories outside the region.   More...
02 Feb 2016
Image:  The ABI PRISM 7900HT Sequence Detection System (Photo courtesy of the University of Geneva).

Increased Baseline C-Reactive Protein Linked to Heightened Infection Risk

C-reactive protein is an innate immune system recognition and effector molecule that plays a role in both the innate response and as an adaptor to the complex immune system.    More...
01 Feb 2016
Image: Molecular surface of the capsid of human rhinovirus, one of the viruses which cause acute respiratory infections (Photo courtesy of A. J. Cann).

Blood Test Could Identify Which Patients Need Antibiotics

Acute respiratory infections caused by bacterial or viral pathogens are among the most common reasons for seeking medical car and despite improvements in pathogen-based diagnostics, most patients receive inappropriate antibiotics.  More...
31 Jan 2016
Image: The bite of an infected female tsetse fly taking a bloodmeal can transmit Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, cause of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also called African sleeping sickness, usually fatal if untreated  with patients falling into a coma before death (Photo David Bygott/Flickr, courtesy of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)).

New Rapid Diagnostic Test to Tackle Fatal Sleeping Sickness

Using an innovative approach, scientists have developed a simple serodiagnostic method, similar to a dipstick pregnancy test, to fight human African trypanosomiasis caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense More...
27 Jan 2016
Image: The Microflex LT bench-top MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer and BioTyper (Photo courtesy of Bruker Daltonics).

Aerobic Bacteria Rapidly Identified by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry is a diagnostic tool for the identification of organisms routinely found in the microbiology laboratory.   More...
27 Jan 2016
Image: Targets on the paper test, left, change color to indicate infection (Photo courtesy of Matt Terry, McMaster University).

Paper-Based DNA Amplification Test to Simplify Infectious Disease Diagnostics

A simple and rapid paper-based diagnostic platform for diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms was described in a recent paper.  More...
24 Jan 2016
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Simplified Methodology Assists Molecular Analysis of Cholera

Simplified sample preservation methods have been evaluated for molecular characterization using multi-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for differentiation of Vibrio cholerae genotypes.  More...
20 Jan 2016
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