According to the WHO every year over 200,000 deaths are caused by meningitis worldwide, and one million new cases are diagnosed.
Bacterial meningitis can be extremely dangerous, resulting in death in less than 24 hours. There is a need for novel, rapid high-performance diagnostic tests that are affordable, deliver accurate and quick results and allow bacterial meningitis to be diagnosed based on use, impact, target population and level of training, and can ideally measure antibiotic sensitivity.
Bacterial CNS Flow Chip was developed to meet this need, allowing the simultaneous detection of nine meningitis-causing bacteria.
Kit details
The Bacterial CNS Flow Chip kit is an in vitro diagnostic kit for bacteria and fungi that cause meningitis and encephalitis in humans. The methods currently used for their diagnosis are very time consuming and do not always have 100% specificity. The Bacterial CNS Flow Chip system can simultaneously detect nine bacterial species (Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus agalactiae, Listeria monocytogenes, Haemophilus influenzae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Treponema pallidum, Coxiella burnetti, and Borrelia burgdorferi) and one fungus (Cryptococcus neoformans) through the multiplex PCR amplification of bacterial DNA and subsequent reverse hybridisation on a membrane containing species-specific DNA probes.
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