PATHPOD

PATHPOD

PATHPOD

Device + kit for rapid detection of Covid-19 in mobile clinics and community health centres, based on LAMP technology

PATHPOD
Main use

second line detection

Reaction time

30 minutes

Auxiliary equipment required

portable instrument

Training required

minimal

Pathpod relies on easy-to-use gear, provides results in 30 minutes and requires minimal training. An operator pours the sample on a lab-on-a-chip cartridge and loads the cartridge into an automatic, portable device to perform the analysis. The cartridge is then safely discarded. The system is based on Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP), a molecular technology that amplifies and detects the specific genetic sequences of the virus. The solution is an adaption of the platform developed under the EU project VIVALDI to detect animal viruses. The system will process up to 10 samples in a single run. Pathpod will be accurate comparable to RT-PCR, the current gold standard for the molecular diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2, with the advantage of being faster and on-site. It will be suitable for rapid second-line detection in mobile clinics and community health centres without the need to ship the sample to a central laboratory.

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Elimination of Carryover Contamination in Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for Rapid Detection of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Point-of-Care Testing

Scientific publications — 20 Apr 2022

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is being used as a robust rapid diagnostic tool to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases. However, carryover contamination of LAMP-amplified products originating from previous tests has been a problem in LAMP-based bio-analytical assays. In this study, we developed a Cod-uracil-DNA-glycosylase real-time reverse transcriptase LAMP assay (Cod-UNG-rRT-LAMP) for the elimination of...