Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Successful patient outcomes are diminished by a failure to rapidly diagnose these infections and initiate appropriate therapy. A rapid and reliable diagnostic platform of high sensitivity is needed for the management of patients with BSIs. The combination of an RNA-dependent nucleic acid sequence-based amplificati...

The Nuclisens EasyQ HIV-1 v1.1 assay (Biomerieux) is a real-time detection method combined with NASBA technology designed to measure plasma HIV-RNA. Its performance was assessed in 1008 clinical specimens collected from individuals infected with clade B (774) and non-B (234) HIV-1 variants at four European laboratories. The results were compared with those obtained using three other commercial ...

The environmental route of transmission is important for many protozoan and helminth parasites, with water, soil and food being particularly significant. Both the potential for producing large numbers of transmissive stages and their environmental robustness pose persistent threats to public and veterinary health. The introduction of molecular techniques, in particular those based on the amplif...

Suspensions of electrocatalytic platinum nanoparticles with radii as small as 78.9 ± 3.5 nm that are functionalised with DNA only in one region have been created using templated electrodeposition. The integrity of the bound DNA following nanoparticle desorption from the electrode is demonstrated by detecting attomolar concentrations of DNA without the need for molecular, e.g., PCR or NASBA, amp...

The most common direct detection methods are isolation or in-vitro cultivation, electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (antigen-ELISA), nucleic-acid hybridisation (NAH), macroand microarrays and the various techniques of nucleic acid amplification, such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or the isothermal amplification method...

The bio barcode silica nanotubes (SNTs) was developed to detect pathogenic bacteria using quantum dots and beacon-type capture probe. Various quantum dots were embedded in SNT (QD-SNT) to generate a barcoding signal with different colors and orders. The QD-SNT was coated by colloidal gold nanoparticle to immobilize hairpin structured capture probe on outer walls. Pathogenic specific capture pro...

Immature stages of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus were collected from 17 dengue re-epidemic areas in Chiang Mai and Lampang Provinces, in the north of Thailand. They were reared to adults and tested for dengue viral RNA by a nucleic acid sequence based amplification assay (NASBA). Of a total of 9,825 Ae. aegypti and 150 Ae. albopictus examined, none of them were found positive for the virus, ...