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Our Infectious Disease Resource Bundle will help you easily adopt a new, remote approach to sample collection that enables research studies and clinical trials to occur at-home, in the field, or in locations without clinically trained staff. Mitra® devices with VAMS® technology provide simple precision for remote microsampling and efficient, automated lab processing. Learn how the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Swiss Tropical Institute, LGC Group, and other organizations are deploying remote microsampling with Mitra® devices globally.
Source/Credit: NIBIB/NIH. Nature Communications. Volume 12, Article number: 113 (2021)
Mitra® remote microsampling devices are extremely well-suited for both small and large-scale serology studies. Research provided in our resource bundle illustrates:
Access our Resource Bundle for all these details plus insight into a multiplex assay that uses Mitra devices to simultaneously measure >30 strains of influenza.
Credit: Christopher Barnes and Pamela Bjorkman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Accurate measurement of antibody levels is critical for understanding both natural and vaccine-induced immunity. Antibody and immunity studies will inform "immunity passports," facilitating a return to school, work, and other activities. These studies benefit from remote microsampling. Mitra microsamples are quantitative and precise (RSD < 4%), enabling the reporting of specific titer levels. Data within our resource bundle shows:
Read all about this data and more in our Infectious Disease Research Resource Bundle and access the relevant literature for more insights.
Credit: DropBio Pty Ltd (data provided as a courtesy prior to publication)
Researchers investigate cytokines and other biomarkers as early predictors of severe Covid-19 illness. They are hopeful at the prospect of earlier identification and intervention of patients at high risk for severe Covid-19 and other infections. Data included in our Resource Bundle illustrates that the following is possible with Mitra devices:
Learn more by reading our news articles, including the one titled, cytokines as predictive biomarkers of severe COVID-19: could at-home sampling be helpful?
Collecting biological specimens in low-resource areas to study tropical diseases is difficult and expensive. Mitra devices offer a convenient, reliable, and cost-effective solution to these issues. Mitra devices with VAMS tips also overcome the drying and analytical bias issues encountered with dried blood spot cards. Leading research institutions specializing in tropical medicine prefer Mitra collection for a variety of research projects, such as:
Read our Infectious Disease Resource Bundle for additional insights on how to implement remote MItra microsampling in tropical medicine.
As the Coronavirus Pandemic spread around the globe in 2020, we saw accelerated adoption of Mitra® devices and VAMS® technology for remote microsampling studies. With entire countries in lockdown, researchers realized it was time to fully embrace remote studies, decentralized trials, and virtual models. You can offer remote specimen collection to help people avoid exposure to contagions while they contribute to science.
Leaders in infectious disease research use microsampling in innovative ways, from remote vaccine studies to drug trials for effective therapies.
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The strong correlation between anti-RBD IgG and mAbs, combined with the demonstration in this study and by others that anti-RBD can reliably be measured from dried blood finger-prick samples, provides feasibility for future SARS-CoV-2 immunokinetic studies that incorporate RBD-IgG-based assays.”
— Alana Whitcombe, PhD candidate & scientist, Auckland University, New Zealand
The NIH ELISA-based serology protocol using Mitra® microsampling devices with VAMS® technology from Neoteryx gives all scientists a reliable method for identifying SARS-CoV-2 raised antibodies in blood microsamples with amazing specificity, which is critical during the coronavirus pandemic.”
— James Rudge, PhD, Technical Director, Neoteryx, USA
Our COVID-19 assay is suitable for partnering with employers for back to work testing using the self-sampling Mitra® device, and therefore does not require a phlebotomist to take the blood sample in a healthcare setting.”
– Michael van der Merwe, Commercial Director, LGC, United Kingdom
Researchers have considerable experience using these at-home blood collection kits to track the spread of other infectious diseases like influenza, and this method is safe, effective and easy-to-use. With a small finger-prick, volunteers can help scientists fight COVID-19 from their homes."
– Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD, Study Lead and Section Chief, Immunoengineering at NIBIB, National Institutes of Heath (NIH)
"[During the pandemic] we haven't been able to collect samples in person for our studies, so remote microsampling has enabled us to run studies when we were otherwise shut down. It also enables us to collect longitudinal samples from a large number of subjects across a range of geographies."
– Dr. Michael Snyder, The Snyder Lab, Stanford Medicine
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Mitra® devices are CE-IVD (IVDR) devices intended as specimen collectors and for the storage and transport of dried blood. They are available as registered IVD Devices in the European Union and United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, China, and Canada, as well as multiple Health Ministries worldwide. In the USA, Mitra devices are supplied as a research use only (RUO) product to assist in method development, other research-related and non-diagnostic activities. Mitra has not been validated for use with any diagnostic testing.
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