Dried blood spots: An evaluation of utility in the field
Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2018 Background: Use of dried blood spots (DBS) offers advantages over serum samples in studies conducted in resource-poor settings. The aim of this study was to compare the number of adequate spots collected across different demographic groups. Methods: Five
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Nontargeted Mass Spectrometry of Dried Blood Spots for Interrogation of the Human Circulating Metabolome [PDF]
, 2021 Advances in high resolution, nontargeted mass spectrometry allow for the simultaneous measure of thousands of metabolites in a single biosample. Application of these analytical approaches to population-scale human studies has been limited by the need for
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State of the Science in Dried Blood Spots [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry, 2018 AbstractBACKGROUNDAdvancements in the quality and availability of highly sensitive analytical instrumentation and methodologies have led to increased interest in the use of microsamples. Among microsamples, dried blood spots (DBS) are the most well-known. Although there have been a variety of review papers published on DBS, there has been no attempt at
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Spreading of blood over porous substrate: Dried blood spots sampling [Abstract]
, 2015 Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling is a method of blood collection, transportation and storage which has been investigated and used over the recent decades [1], [2].
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Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2021 Objective Most prenatal screening programs for toxoplasmosis use immunoassays in serum samples of pregnant women. Few studies assess the accuracy of screening tests in dried blood spots, which are of easy collection, storage, and transportation.
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Comparison of African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) fatty acid profiles in whole blood, whole blood dried on blood spot cards, serum, and plasma [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background African elephants in managed care have presented differences in the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, a situation primarily thought to be due to dietary differences between the managed animals and their free-ranging counterparts.
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Quantitation of 5-Methyltetrahydrofolic Acid in Dried Blood Spots and Dried Plasma Spots by Stable Isotope Dilution Assays. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Because of minimal data available on folate analysis in dried matrix spots (DMSs), we combined the advantages of stable isotope dilution assays followed by LC-MS/MS analysis with DMS sampling to develop a reliable method for the quantitation of plasma 5 ...
Markus Kopp, Michael Rychlik
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Detection of HIV-1 infection in dried blood spots from a 12-year-old ABO bedside test card [PDF]
, 1998 Background and Objectives: We tested dried blood from an ABO bedside test card which had been stored at room temperature for 12 years, to prove that a patient with HIV-1 infection had been infected by blood transfusion. Materials and Methods: Immunoblots
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Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2013 OBJECTIVE: To validate and develop an immunonephelometric assay for the determination of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) levels in dried blood spots from COPD patients in Brazil.
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The development and validation of dried blood spots for external quality assurance of syphilis serology. [PDF]
, 2013 BACKGROUND: Syphilis causes up to 1,500,000 congenital syphilis cases annually. These could be prevented if all pregnant women were screened, and those with syphilis treated with a single dose of penicillin before 28 weeks gestation.
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