Novel, miniature, ultra-low cost, lateral flow reader and application to personal/home testing and disease surveillance.

该项目资助开发一种低成本的横向流动测试阅读器，以满足对具有成本效益和便携的横向流动测试分析的日益增长的需求。这些检测越来越受欢迎和应用，尤其是在对低成本疾病诊断需求最大的低资源市场。目前对这一需求的解决方案太高，无法使它们容易进入我们设想的市场，这些市场将从这个项目的产品中受益最多。这项工作的成果有可能彻底改变包括家庭使用在内的一系列市场部门可使用的诊断测试的范围，因为它消除了解释测试结果的猜测，向用户提供关于测试结果和诊断/治疗下一步的明确和明确的反馈。

This project funds the development of a low-cost lateral flow test reader to address a growing need for cost-effective and portable analysis of lateral flow tests. These tests are growing in popularity and application, not least in low-resource markets where the need for low-cost disease diagnosis is greatest. Current solutions to this need are too high to make them readily accessible to the markets we envisage will benefit most from the product from this project. The output from this work has the potential to completely change the range of diagnostic tests available to a range of market sectors, including home use, by taking the guesswork out of interpreting test results, giving clear and unambiguous feedback to the user about the test result and next steps in diagnosis/treatment.