April 7, 2021
Congratulations to current lab members Dr. Cassio, Jason, Garrett Kelly, Jacob Heggestad, and Angus Hucknall, and alumni Dr. Kelli Luginbuhl and Dr. Dan Joh on their publication "Ultrasensitive point-of-care immunoassay for secreted glycoprotein detects Ebola infection earlier than PCR"! The authors present low-cost, rapid diagnostic tests that perform as well as PCR and which can be used at the point of need. These can help contain outbreaks of infectious diseases. Fontes et al. developed an immunoassay to detect Ebola virus secreted glycoprotein (sGP), a decoy antigen present in infected blood. Link HERE.