JCU melioidosis breakthrough

Updated December 18 2015 - 1:49pm, first published September 23 2013 - 4:00am
Associate Professor Schaeffer, leader of JCU’s Supramolecular and Synthetic Biology Group, said previous sensitive tests took three to four days to obtain a result. Alternative, more rapid tests exist but have very low sensitivity and can misdiagnose of up to half of patients presenting with melioidosis.
Associate Professor Schaeffer, leader of JCU’s Supramolecular and Synthetic Biology Group, said previous sensitive tests took three to four days to obtain a result. Alternative, more rapid tests exist but have very low sensitivity and can misdiagnose of up to half of patients presenting with melioidosis.

A TEAM of researchers at James Cook University, led by Associate Professor Patrick Schaeffer, has developed a new highly sensitive and rapid multiplex diagnostic test for melioidosis called ‘2DIA’.

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