An automated microfluidic diagnostics pipeline for infectious disease detection in low resource settingsShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: MicroTAS 2020 - 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society , 2020, p. 1197-1198Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
While diagnostics are critical for accurate and timely diagnosis, gold-standard diagnostic tests are commonly high- performance laboratory-based tests that require multi-step protocols for complex sample processing and highly trained personnel, both scarce in low-resource settings. Here, we address the need for an easy-to-use, rapid and reliable diagnostic testing pipeline by presenting a solution combining open-source modular automation and automation compatible microfluidics, easily adaptable to a pipeline for infectious diseases diagnosis. We demonstrate an automation compatible microfluidics pipeline for Neisseria meningitidis diagnosis by on-chip nucleic acids isolation and isothermal amplification, as well as pathogen detection on a paper-based microarray.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society , 2020. p. 1197-1198
Keywords [en]
Automation, Diagnostics, Global health, Infectious diseases, Microfluidics, Modular robotics, Diseases, Nucleic acids, Pipelines, Diagnostic testing, Diagnostic tests, Infectious disease, Isothermal amplifications, Low-resource settings, Multi step protocols, Neisseria meningitidis, Pathogen detection, Diagnosis
National Category
Infectious Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-302924Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85098264205OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-302924DiVA, id: diva2:1599826
Conference
24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2020, 4 October 2020 through 9 October 2020
Note
QC 20211002
2021-10-022021-10-022022-06-25Bibliographically approved