Smartphone-Based Mobile Detection Platform for Molecular Diagnostics and Spatiotemporal Disease Mapping
Song et al.
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The authors developed a smartphone-connected cup that uses bioluminescent loop-mediated isothermal amplification to quantitatively detect Zika virus in saliva and urine, and HIV in blood within 45 minutes. The electricity-free heating and integrated smartphone app enable spatiotemporal disease mapping, making it suitable for decentralised diagnostics in resource-limited settings.
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This review found saliva comparable to blood and urine for detecting viral genetic material and antibodies, supporting patient-centric monitoring and decentralised surveillance. The authors state that standardised protocols and further validation are required for routine clinical use.
This review summarises progress toward integrating automated sample preparation with on-chip nucleic acid amplification for home testing of self-collected blood, urine, saliva and stool specimens. It identifies that user-friendly, combined systems may enable rapid, accurate molecular diagnostics outside central laboratories, which is relevant for decentralised infectious disease screening.
Capillary blood self-sampling achieved 98.3% agreement with venous samples for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies and 100% for IgA among 60 participants, demonstrating accuracy for vaccine monitoring. Saliva self-collection proved feasible with excellent usability, offering a patient-centric alternative for decentralised immunogenicity assessment.
This review identifies sample preparation as the key bottleneck limiting rapid home testing for infectious diseases, despite advances in nucleic acid amplification and signal transduction. It emphasises saliva, blood, urine and stool as primary self-collected specimens and discusses on-chip integration strategies to simplify operation for end-users, which could transform decentralised infectious disease diagnostics.
A US survey of 3,400 adults aged 62 to 90 collected up to 15 biomeasures at home, including saliva, dried blood spots and urine, with Salivette and Oragene among the devices used, which shows that several patient-centric sampling methods can run together in home-based research.