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The 42-months European project USDEP has been SUCCESSFULLY finalized in April 2010.
General Conclusion
The use of ApoH-coated supports allows ultrasensitive pathogen detection that drastically reduces the number of false negative results from clinical diagnostics. Moreover, ApoH technology accelerates and enhances the detection of many kinds of cultivable and non-cultivable bacteria (Gram + and Gram -) from human blood and tissues. Notably, detection of bacterial nosocomial infections has potential to become an important tool to establish appropriate therapeutic management. USDEP has been highly successful in generating several prototypes of diagnostic tools and in providing clinical confirmation of their application.
Future Directions & Open Entrepreneurial Opportunities
This project has been pivotal to ApoH Technologies business development and to developing collaborative links between several European SMEs and academic centres.
The introduction of an ApoH-capture step can increase the safety of standard diagnostic procedures for the detection of pathogens. The final aim after the USDEP project is to carry out further comprehensive clinical evaluation of the ApoH technology and integrate the ApoH-treatment of samples into diagnostic tests of microorganisms (single or multiple). Following a recent fund raising, ApoH-Technologies has integrated this aim in its development strategies and is already putting efforts to attempt, at least a part, of this ambitious objective. Several industrial partnerships and contracts have recently been initiated with ApoH-technologies in several fields where the microorganism detection is needed and are at the final step of negotiations.
Use molecular biology detection methods to enable highly sensitive and rapid detection of viruses and bacteria!!!!
