10 Minute Test Diag**ses Ebola, Dengue, Yellow Fever
 

10 Minute Test Diag**ses Ebola, Dengue, Yellow Fever
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Ebola is continuing to infect people in the West Africa, but current testing techniques for the disease still take too much time. A new paper strip diag**stic device developed at MIT can spot Ebola, as well as dengue and yellow fever, simultaneously within ten minutes.

Using lateral flow tech**logy, the device works much like a pregnancy test strip. Three different kinds of silver na**particles are used, each type having antibodies for a specific disease attached to them. When blood is passed through the strip the target viral proteins latch onto their matching antibodies and pull up the silver na**particles.*The color of the test strip identifies the viral infection that the patient has. Hopefully this easy to use tech**logy can lead to fewer*people being infected and can help those that have the virus to*receive earlier*care.

From the study in Lab on a Chip:

Rapid point-of-care (POC) diag**stic devices are needed for field-forward screening of severe acute systemic febrile illnesses. Multiplexed rapid lateral flow diag**stics have the potential to distinguish among multiple pathogens, thereby facilitating diag**sis and improving patient care. Here, we present a platform for multiplexed pathogen detection using multi-colored silver na**plates. This design requires ** external excitation source and permits multiplexed analysis in a single channel, facilitating integration and manufacturing.

Study in Lab on a Chip: Multicolored silver na**particles for multiplexed disease diag**stics: distinguishing dengue, yellow fever, and Ebola viruses…

MIT:*Simple paper strip can diag**se Ebola and other fevers within 10 minutes…

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