Mobile, instant diagnosis of viruses
Mobile, instant diagnosis of viruses
A new high-throughput, miniature, portable sequencing technique * has been developed in recent years for human and animal health purposes.
It uses mobile laboratories to diagnose viruses such as Ebola or Zica, almost immediately in the area.
Diagnosis is both quick and elementary, which prevents the need for transferring contaminated samples.
"Technology is characterized by the production of long nucleotide sequences, which makes it possible to index whole viral genomes," says a virologist Philippe Roumagnac with CIRAD.
CIRAD was one of the world's first laboratories, which was to test and verify its use in plant virology.
"We took a few hours to sequence the whole genome of two single-strand RNA viruses, a macluravirus, and a potyvirus, using a diseased yam plant," says his colleague Denis Filloux adds.
A quick diagnosis of a mobile, plant virus to back up the epidemiosurveillance surveillance network
With human virology, the fact is that this technique has now been validated in a Plant Virology Laboratory, which is also the real-time, old, seasonal or emerging plant in different areas, the path to detect mobile virus Paves.
By reducing the time between sampling and diagnosis, technology will help in the detection of harmful organisms in the first phase of the epidemiological network.
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This work, done by an international team, including CIRAD and European, Indian and South African partners, was funded by the Agropolis Foundation, under a major project, E-Space (Improvement in the epidemiology of diseases of the Mediterranean and Tropical Plants).
* Oxford Nanopore Minion
Mobile, instant diagnosis of viruses
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