Revolutionizing tuberculosis & pneumonia diagnostics
with breath sampling
The need
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Global health threat: tuberculosis and pneumonia are the most deadly infectious diseases globally, causing around 4 million deaths annually¹
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Challenge: rapid and accurate identification of the pathogen causing the infection is essential to guide treatment and reduce antibiotic overuse
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Current limitations: shortcomings of existing sampling methods pose a major barrier to testing. Samples from the lower respiratory tract are hard to obtain, invasive, often unreliable, or prone to errors
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Innovation needed: experts see breath sampling as a promising, non-invasive solution to transform tuberculosis and pneumonia diagnostics
Our solution: AveloCollect - a breath aerosol collector
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Our breath sampling kit works with existing molecular tests
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Collects disease-causing viruses and bacteria from the lungs for subsequent detection
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Easy and non-invasive – can be used anywhere, anytime
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 alone²
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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 care³
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Making every breath count: establish breath bioaerosols as a novel sample type for standard clinical diagnosis of respiratory infections
