Dec 12, 2014. Navy Medicine, Notre Dame Collaborate on New Took - TopicsExpress



          

Dec 12, 2014. Navy Medicine, Notre Dame Collaborate on New Took to diagnose Infectious diseases, Dengue. (NMRC) Researchers from the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) and the University of Notre Dame have agreed to collaborate on the engineering and application of a new field-deployable assay for the detection of infectious diseases, with the initial focus on the detection of dengue fever. Currently, there are no U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved rapid diagnostic tests to distinguish dengue virus infections from other febrile infectious diseases. The University of Notre Dame initially approached NMRC in 2013 to explore collaborating on a portable detection assay. The effort was formalized in November with the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement and the team began working on designing a prototype. Once the prototype is completed and successfully tested, the team will use the technology to expand to other pathogens of military, national security and global health importance. navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=84839
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:57:43 +0000

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