| Autor: |
Manousos E. Kambouris, Stavroula Siamoglou, Zoe Kordou, Aphroditi Milioni, Stamatis Vassilakis, Stavroula Goudoudaki, Stavroula Kritikou, Yiannis Manoussopoulos, Aristea Velegraki, George P. Patrinos |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2020 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Biosafety and Health, Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 177-182 (2020) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2590-0536 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.bsheal.2020.06.001 |
| Popis: |
Infectious agents, both standard and emerging or engineered, might initiate outbreaks with global impact and/or existential- level threat potential. Such agents might infect human, livestock, exploitable plant cultures or the environment at large. Instead of responding by sampling teams which may also carry out prolonged surveillance, a more effective concept is to pre-process the samples, possibly to nucleic acid extract so as to transport them without biological risks by standard channels, or to process them up to a point and return the results, leaving the samples which only need specialized tests and dedicated equipment. In this context a portable device, allowing multiple routine and crisis -management applications due to its inherent flexibility, is scrutinized against alternatives and possible needs so as to develop a novel standard of surveillance and intervention, meant to facilitate containment by providing faster much more reliable laboratory results at a fraction of older generation mobile nucleic acids analyzers. Additional steps, such as agarose in pills and buffers pre-packaged in expendable syringes with pistons locked by improvised safety features may improve the Complexity Level of the whole system so as to make it appealing to intervention/crisis management personnel, while the instrument proper may double as backup for respective benchtop devices. |
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