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An essential part to evaluate the success of global health is the access to appropriate diagnostic tools [1]. A commendable diagnostic tool should be able to identify the disease occurred from the individuals rapidly. Especially for the infectious diseases, the turnaround time (TAT) for the diagnosi...
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author | Lei, Ka-Meng Mak, Pui-In Law, Man-Kay Martins, Rui Paulo |
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description | An essential part to evaluate the success of global health is the access to appropriate diagnostic tools [1]. A commendable diagnostic tool should be able to identify the disease occurred from the individuals rapidly. Especially for the infectious diseases, the turnaround time (TAT) for the diagnosis strongly affects their exacerbation level to the community. In vitro diagnostic (IVD) tool is aimed to offer a comfortable diagnosis for the patients, by taking only small specimens from the human body, e.g., blood, urine, or sputum, for analysis. Consequently, technologies enabling effective in vitro diagnosis become highly attractive for both developed and developing countries [2]. Tremendous efforts have been geared toward developing clinical-level IVD tools. Despite achieving high accuracy, the resulting TAT can be too long for diagnoses of contagious diseases like Ebola and SARS in the rural area, and the requisite of skillful operators and sophisticated equipment to perform the assays can dramatically raise the cost of the assay. |
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spelling | pubmed-71209092020-04-06 Introduction Lei, Ka-Meng Mak, Pui-In Law, Man-Kay Martins, Rui Paulo Handheld Total Chemical and Biological Analysis Systems Article An essential part to evaluate the success of global health is the access to appropriate diagnostic tools [1]. A commendable diagnostic tool should be able to identify the disease occurred from the individuals rapidly. Especially for the infectious diseases, the turnaround time (TAT) for the diagnosis strongly affects their exacerbation level to the community. In vitro diagnostic (IVD) tool is aimed to offer a comfortable diagnosis for the patients, by taking only small specimens from the human body, e.g., blood, urine, or sputum, for analysis. Consequently, technologies enabling effective in vitro diagnosis become highly attractive for both developed and developing countries [2]. Tremendous efforts have been geared toward developing clinical-level IVD tools. Despite achieving high accuracy, the resulting TAT can be too long for diagnoses of contagious diseases like Ebola and SARS in the rural area, and the requisite of skillful operators and sophisticated equipment to perform the assays can dramatically raise the cost of the assay. 2017-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7120909/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67825-2_1 Text en © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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