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BIRAC Success Stories | 2016 Bigtec Labs
Key Highlights
* System is now commercially available.
Breakthrough * Significant reduction in cost and time
gap in disease diagnosis.
• A low-cost, battery-operated, * Tests launched for diagnosis of
portable, rugged, easy-to-use and Tuberculosis, Drug Resistant TB, Hepatitis
affordable disease detection system B, Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya, H1N1
developed for Malaria, Dengue and and Typhoid.
Typhoid. * Simplified sample processing with
• Platform can be used to detect a host minimal user training.
of diseases at an early stage at the * The system is now commercially
point of care. available through Molbio Diagnostics, a
• Aimed at bringing high-end disease JV between Bigtec and the Tulip Group –
diagnostics technology to the grass India’s largest diagnostics company.
roots marking a paradigm shift in
health care access.
• Developed for resource-limited
settings like India, microPCR can test
a sample in less than 60 minutes and
at a fraction of normal costs.
BIRAC’s Support
PoC diagnostics for Malaria, Dengue &
Typhoid was developed with support
under the BIPP initiative.
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