South China Morning Post Phase Scientific’s CEO says his team is working on rapid test that can yield results in 10 to 15 minutes by finger pricking. Hong Kong researchers are developing a rapid test for chikungunya fever that they hope will detect the mosquito-borne disease at an earlier stage, as part of the city’s efforts to harness technology to combat the public health risk.
Ricky Chiu Yin-to, founder and CEO of biotechnology company Phase Scientific, said on Monday that his team was working to develop a rapid blood test that could yield results in 10 to 15 minutes.
The product, which uses blood from a finger prick, aims to detect specific proteins, or antigens, on the surface of the chikungunya virus rather than looking for antibodies produced by the body – an approach adopted by many other rapid tests in the world.00:29
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“When you are at the stage of acute infection, the test could identify chikungunya virus from your blood, instead of looking into a more secondary immune response of your body,” Chiu said.