Lab on Wheels

An innovative point-of-care test to diagnose Chlamydiales in One Health setting InPoChlam

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Countries Involved

3 Domains

Multi-Sector Sampling

Lab-on-Wheels

Point-of-Care Solution

Overview

Modern pathology laboratories are providing Point of Care (POC) services to the needy. However, often these are inaccessible and not affordable to patients living in rural areas. The One Health approach underlines the necessity to understand the environment and provide pragmatic solutions for prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.

Aim

InPoChlam is Joint Industrial Research and development project between India and EUREKA member countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain and United Kingdom). The goal of this collaborative innovation across borders is to foster ONE HEALTH through affordable, innovative solutions for prevention and control, point of care diagnostics and treatment of infectious disease (Chlamydia) to improve prevention, treatment outcomes and efficient utilization of health resources.

Objectives

The main objective is the collection of a clinical cohort of human patient samples, chicken broiler samples and poultry worker samples in India. Samples will be used for identification of Chlamydiales in a variety of biological and environmental samples in order to fully validate the Lab on Wheels and show its market potential in India, possible other less developed countries.

Status of the project

Blood and urine samples from infertile women and women with Pelvic inflammatory disease were sent to Allahabad for analysis.