Making every breath count with breath aerosol diagnostics
The need
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Up to 20% of all primary care consultations are due to respiratory infections¹
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They result in 4 million deaths each year, almost all of them due to infections in the lower respiratory tract causing pneumonia²
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Lack of good diagnostic solutions are a main reason for poor outcomes and antibiotic overuse
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Transformative, rapid testing where people first seek care is critical to capture pneumonia early and initiate the right treatment
Our solution: AveloCollect - a breath aerosol collector
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Works with existing molecular tests
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Detects multiple respiratory tract infections causing pneumonia
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Is easy and can be used in every healthcare setting
1. Collect
Breathe for
2 minutes
2. Elute
Transfer to
standard lab tube
3. Test and Treat
Diagnose & treat multiple diseases
The impact
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Saving lives: better diagnosis for earlier and tailored antibiotic or antiviral treatment
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Reducing healthcare costs: easy sample collection and diagnosis to keep patients out of the hospital and lower the annual costs of USD 52 billion in Europe alone³
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Fighting antimicrobial resistance (AMR): AveloCollect works with existing respiratory multiplex tests which differentiate between viral and bacterial infections to reduce the more than 65% unnecessarily prescribed antibiotics in primary care⁴
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Making every breath count: establish breath bioaerosols as a novel sample type for standard clinical diagnosis of respiratory infections
