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Diagnostics of intestinal parasites using a portable centrifuge device paired with a smartphone-based microscope
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Diagnostics of intestinal parasites using a portable centrifuge device paired with a smartphone-based microscope

Terry Juang, Wen-Bin Lee and Gwo-Bin Lee
22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2018, Vol.3, pp.1753-1755
2018

Abstract

Global health Intestinal helminths Lab-on-a-disk Neglected tropical diseases Point-of-care Smartphone imaging Chemistry (all) Bioengineering Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) Control and Systems Engineering
This study presents a hand driven centrifugal device coupled with a smartphone microscope to rapidly diagnose intestinal parasitic infections. The most common method for parasite diagnosis (direct smear or Kato Katz methods) though low cost and relatively easy to perform, suffer from high false negative results. Thus, there is a need to develop a high sensitivity high accuracy technique for the detection and monitor intestinal parasitic infections. Here, we demonstrate a point of care system consisting of a smartphone microscope coupled with a hand driven centrifuge disk to perform rapid parasite infection diagnosis.

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