Making every breath count with breath aerosol diagnostics

The need

• 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 

• 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

The impact

• 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