Fully automated point-of-care differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness.

• Main Authors: Sebastian Hin (Author), Benjamin Lopez-Jimena (Author), Mohammed Bakheit (Author), Vanessa Klein (Author), Seamus Stack (Author), Cheikh Fall (Author), Amadou Sall (Author), Khalid Enan (Author), Mohamed Mustafa (Author), Liz Gillies (Author), Viorel Rusu (Author), Sven Goethel (Author), Nils Paust (Author), Roland Zengerle (Author), Sieghard Frischmann (Author), Manfred Weidmann (Author), Konstantinos Mitsakakis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>In this work, a platform was developed and tested to allow to detect a variety of candidate viral, bacterial and parasitic pathogens, for acute fever of unknown origin. The platform is based on a centrifugal microfluidic cartridge, the LabDisk ("FeverDisk" fo...