In the field of disease control, which often involves hypersensitivity testing of pathogens or identification of multiple pathogens, digital PCR is widely used in this field, for example as the following:
Precise prevention and control of novel coronavirus
In the research of 2019-nCoV novel coronavirus, digital PCR provides strong technical support for confirmation of diagnosis and scientific research with its advantages of high sensitivity and low lower detection line. Based on its unique features, it is dedicated to 8 major application areas: ① high sensitivity detection of SARS-CoV-2; ② assessment of viral load in different types of clinical samples; ③ evaluation of sample preparation methods; ④ dynamic monitoring of disease progression; ⑤ preparation of nucleic acid reference: digital PCR allows decision quantification of nucleic acids; ⑥ monitoring of virus concentration in the environment; ⑦ monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 mutation ; ⑧ Evaluation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 viral drugs.
Surveillance of major infectious diseases
Infectious diseases are caused by various pathogens that can be transmitted from human to human, from animal to animal or from human to animal. Digital PCR technology has an urgent need in the fields of functional HIV cure and dynamic monitoring of HIV treatment because of its advantages such as absolute quantification and high sensitivity.
Environment and health testing
Accurate detection of targets with low concentrations of pathogenic microorganisms in complex samples in the environment, such as the monitoring of highly infectious pathogenic microorganisms in sewage samples.