期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 114, 期 51, 页码 13513-13518出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1711464114
关键词
micronutrient deficiency diagnostics; smartphone; point-of-care diagnostics; multicolor lateral flow; fluorescence immunoassay
资金
- Nutrition International
- National Science Foundation [1343058]
- National Institutes of Health [1R01EB021331]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1343058] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Micronutrient deficiencies such as those of vitamin A and iron affect a third of the world's population with consequences such as night blindness, higher child mortality, anemia, poor pregnancy outcomes, and reduced work capacity. Many efforts to prevent or treat these deficiencies are hampered by the lack of adequate, accessible, and affordable diagnostic methods that can enable better targeting of interventions. In this work, we demonstrate a rapid diagnostic test and mobile enabled platform for simultaneously quantifying iron (ferritin), vitamin A (retinol-binding protein), and inflammation (C-reactive protein) status. Our approach, enabled by combining multiple florescent markers and immunoassay approaches on a single test, allows us to provide accurate quantification in 15 min even though the physiological range of the markers of interest varies over five orders of magnitude. We report sensitivities of 88%, 100%, and 80% and specificities of 97%, 100%, and 97% for iron deficiency (ferritin < 15 mu g/mL or 32 mu mol/L), vitamin A deficiency (retinol-binding protein < 14.7 mu g/mL or 0.70 mu mol/L) and inflammation status (C-reactive protein > 3.0 mu g/mL or 120 nmol/L), respectively. This technology is suitable for point-of-care use in both resource-rich and resource-limited settings and can be read either by a standard laptop computer or through our previously developed NutriPhone technology. If implemented as either a population-level screening or clinical diagnostic tool, we believe this platform can transform nutritional status assessment and monitoring globally.
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