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ArticleNature communications2019

Hemozoin-catalyzed precipitation polymerization as an assay for malaria diagnosis.

Omar Rifaie-Graham, Jonas Pollard, Samuel Raccio, Sandor Balog, Sebastian Rusch, María Andrea Hernández-Castañeda, Pierre-Yves Mantel, Hans-Peter Beck, Nico Bruns

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Omar Rifaie-GrahamAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Jonas PollardAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9331-576X
Samuel RaccioAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0251-4876
Sandor BalogAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4847-9845
Sebastian RuschSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051, Basel, Switzerland.
María Andrea Hernández-CastañedaDepartment of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Route Albert-Gockel 1, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Pierre-Yves MantelDepartment of Medicine, University of Fribourg, Route Albert-Gockel 1, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Hans-Peter BeckSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4051, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8326-4834
Nico BrunsAdolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Chemin des Verdiers 4, 1700, Fribourg, Switzerland. nico.bruns@unifr.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6199-9995
University of Fribourg · CHSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute · CH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Methods to diagnose malaria are of paramount interest to eradicate the disease. Current methods have severe limitations, as they are either costly or not sensitive enough to detect low levels of parasitemia. Here we report an ultrasensitive, yet low-resource chemical assay for the detection and quantification of hemozoin, a biomarker of all Plasmodium species. Solubilized hemozoin catalyzes the atom transfer radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide above the lower critical solution temperature of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide). The solution becomes turbid, which can be observed by naked eye and quantified by UV-visible spectroscopy. The rate of turbidity increase is proportional to the concentration of hemozoin, with a detection limit of 0.85 ng mL

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Biological AssayBiosensing TechniquesAcrylamidesAcrylic ResinsBiocatalysisErythrocytesHemeproteinsHumansLimit of DetectionMalaria, FalciparumPlasmodium falciparumPolymerizationSpectrophotometryAcrylamidesAcrylic ResinsHemeproteinshemozoinN-isopropylacrylamidepoly-N-isopropylacrylamide

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PMID30911004
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