{"id":118903,"date":"2013-05-24T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=118903"},"modified":"2013-05-24T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T18:15:32","slug":"rapid-test-for-dengue-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/rapid-test-for-dengue-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid test for dengue fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_118904\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118904\" alt=\"Test strip indicates the results in up to 25 minutes with just one drop of blood  \" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/012-013_Tecnociencia_206-5.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"201\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span>Test strip indicates the results in up to 25 minutes with just one drop of blood<span class=\"media-credits\">L\u00e9o Ramos<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>New tests based on different types of nanoparticles and consisting of a small narrow white strip are able to detect the early stages of dengue infection.\u00a0 By simply placing blood on the strip, the results appear in up to 25 minutes.\u00a0 The test is done by means of three layers.\u00a0 The first layer filters blood plasma from the sample, and when there is an infection, the test detects the proteins released by the virus.\u00a0 Specific antibodies present in the second layer attach themselves to these proteins and as they pass through to the third layer, they are shown by a colored mark that comes from the nanoparticles, confirming the presence of the dengue virus.\u00a0 \u201cWe have incorporated other types of commercial test markers that have given us greater diagnostic capability,\u201d says Elis\u00e2ngela Linares, who developed the test during her doctoral studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universit\u00e4t &amp; Helmholtz Zentrum M\u00fcnchen, in Germany, in collaboration with Professor Lauro Kubota of the Chemistry Institute of the University of Campinas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapid test for dengue fever","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[243,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-118903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-innovation","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118903"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}