The design and evaluation of a shaped filter collection device to sample and store defined volume dried blood spots from finger pricks

Malaria Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Polley, Spencer D ^a   Bell, David ^b   Oliver, James ^c   Tully, Frank ^c   Perkins, Mark D ^d   Chiodini, Peter L ^a,e   González, Iveth J ^d  

^a HOSPITAL FOR TROPICAL DISEASES   (United Kingdom)

^b Global Good Intellectual Ventures Lab   (United States)

^c 42 Technology Limited   (United Kingdom)

^d FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE NEW DIAGNOSTICS   (Switzerland)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA extraction; Dried blood spot; LAMP; Malaria; PCR; Sampling; Shaped filter paper

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FILTER; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRICK TEST; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VOLUMETRY; BLOOD; DESICCATION; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

BLOOD; DESICCATION; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84924119399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-015-0558-x     Document Type: Article

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