Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
S'pore team develops faster dengue test kit
By Ben Nadarajan
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The new kit, which requires just a finger-prick amount of blood, takes just four hours and still maintains the level of accuracy. It can differentiate between four dengue serotypes.
The new test kit can significantly reduce the reliance on labour-intensive and time-consuming laboratory tests which require highly skilled personnel to carry out.
The shorter waiting time also means it can be deployed at areas such as clinics, hospitals and airport gantries.
Associate Professor Ooi Eng Eong from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, who worked closely with the IME team on this project and has more than 10 years of research experience in infectious diseases, believes the dengue diagnostic kit was only a starting point.
He said the technology has the potential to be expanded to include testing for other pathogens such as chikungunya, influenza A and B viruses including those responsible for the avian and H1N1 flu, as well as coronaviruses including that which causes Sars.
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more at.....
http://health.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100306-202917.html
By Ben Nadarajan
snip
The new kit, which requires just a finger-prick amount of blood, takes just four hours and still maintains the level of accuracy. It can differentiate between four dengue serotypes.
The new test kit can significantly reduce the reliance on labour-intensive and time-consuming laboratory tests which require highly skilled personnel to carry out.
The shorter waiting time also means it can be deployed at areas such as clinics, hospitals and airport gantries.
Associate Professor Ooi Eng Eong from the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, who worked closely with the IME team on this project and has more than 10 years of research experience in infectious diseases, believes the dengue diagnostic kit was only a starting point.
He said the technology has the potential to be expanded to include testing for other pathogens such as chikungunya, influenza A and B viruses including those responsible for the avian and H1N1 flu, as well as coronaviruses including that which causes Sars.
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more at.....
http://health.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20100306-202917.html
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