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Point-Of-Care or Point-Of-Need Diagnostic Tests: Time to Change Outbreak Investigation and Pathogen Detection
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Hansen, Sören Wahed, Ahmed Abd El |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | In the recent years, the progress of international trade and travel has led to an increased risk of emerging infections. Around 75 percent of the pathogens causing these infections are of animal origin. Point-of-care tests (POCT) and point-of-need tests (PONT) have been established in order to directly provide accurate and rapid diagnostics at field level, the patient bed-side or at the site of outbreaks. These assays can help physicians and decision makers to take the right action without delay. Typically, POCT and PONT rely on genomic identification of pathogens or track their immunological fingerprint. Recently, protocols for metagenomic diagnostics in the field have been developed. In this review, we give an overview of the latest developments in portable diagnostic methods. In addition, four mobile platforms for the implementation of these techniques at point-of-care and point-of-need are described. These approaches can provide reliable diagnostics and surveillance, especially in low resource settings as well as at the level of one health. |
| Starting Page | 151 |
| e-ISSN | 24146366 |
| DOI | 10.3390/tropicalmed5040151 |
| Journal | Tropical medicine and infectious disease |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2020-09-25 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Tropical medicine and infectious disease Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Microbiology Point-of-care Point-of-need Diagnostics Lateral Flow Assay Isothermal Amplification Mobile Laboratory Field Applicable Diagnostics |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
