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Handheld Purification-Free Nucleic Acid Testing Device for Point-of-Need Detection of Malaria from Whole Blood
ACS Sensors ( IF 8.2 ) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 , DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02169 Aneesh Kshirsagar 1 , Gihoon Choi 1 , Vishaka Santosh 2 , Tara Harvey 2 , Robert Cory Bernhards 2 , Weihua Guan 1, 3
ACS Sensors ( IF 8.2 ) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 , DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.2c02169 Aneesh Kshirsagar 1 , Gihoon Choi 1 , Vishaka Santosh 2 , Tara Harvey 2 , Robert Cory Bernhards 2 , Weihua Guan 1, 3
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World Health Organization’s aim to eliminate malaria from developing/resource-limited economies requires easy access to low-cost, highly sensitive, and specific screening. We present a handheld nucleic acid testing device with on-chip automated sample preparation to detect malaria (Plasmodium falciparum) infection from a whole blood sample as a feasibility study. We used a simple two-reagent-based purification-free protocol to prepare the whole blood sample on a piezo pump pressure-driven microfluidic cartridge. The cartridge includes a unique mixing chamber for sample preparation and metering structures to dispense a predetermined volume of the sample lysate mixture into four chambers containing a reaction mix. The parasite genomic DNA concentration can be estimated by monitoring the fluorescence generated from the loop-mediated isothermal amplification reaction in real time. We achieved a sensitivity of ∼0.42 parasite/μL of whole blood, sufficient for detecting asymptomatic malaria parasite carriers.
更新日期：2023-01-25
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