What are the features of the “Clean® Dried Blood Spot Collection Card”?

The Clean® dried blood spot collection card” has the following characteristics:

In terms of sample collection and processing

• Convenient collection: The operation is relatively simple, and only simple training is required to get started. It does not require professional medical staff to operate, and non-professional personnel can easily complete the collection work. For example, in some large-scale disease screening projects, volunteers or staff who have received simple guidance can carry out the collection.
• Small invasiveness: There is no need to collect a large amount of blood like traditional venous puncture, only a few drops of fingertip blood or heel blood are required, which has less trauma to the body of the person being collected, especially suitable for neonates, children, the elderly, and people with difficult venous blood collection.
• Sample stability: The collected blood spot can be stably stored for a long time at room temperature and is not easily affected by external environmental factors. Changes in factors such as temperature and humidity have little impact on it, which is convenient for the transportation and long-term storage of samples, and is conducive to expanding the scope of screening and medical applications.

In terms of detection applications

• Wide application range: It can be equipped with a variety of back-end detection devices and can be applied to the analysis and detection of various substances. For example, in neonatal disease screening, multiple genetic metabolic diseases can be detected; in the detection of infectious diseases, it also has high sensitivity and specificity for viruses such as HIV and HCV; it can also be used in athlete doping detection, health marker biomarker detection and other fields, providing strong support for disease diagnosis, treatment monitoring, drug research and development, etc.
• Multiple detections possible: One sample can be subjected to multiple detections, enabling multi-index analysis of the same sample, increasing the utilization rate of the sample, and at the same time providing more abundant data information for scientific research and clinical diagnosis.

In terms of safety and hygiene

• Anti-pollution design: After special chemical treatment, it can denature and inactivate pathogenic microorganisms and viruses in the sample, reducing the risk of operators being infected during collection, processing and detection, and avoiding sample contamination of the environment and personnel.
• Convenient for automatic operation: It has good compatibility with common punching systems on the market and is easy to realize automatic operation, which can reduce manual processing links, maximize the integrity of samples and the accuracy of detection results, and at the same time improve work efficiency and reduce labor costs.

In terms of cost and efficiency

• Reduce storage costs: Due to the fact that the sample can be stably stored for a long time at room temperature, there is no need to purchase expensive cryogenic storage equipment, greatly reducing the cost of sample storage, especially suitable for projects that require a large number of sample storage and long-term tracking research.
• Improve detection efficiency: Its stable sample properties and good compatibility with automatic equipment make it possible to quickly and efficiently complete the preprocessing and detection of samples when conducting large-scale sample detection, speeding up the issuance of detection reports and helping to discover problems in time and take corresponding measures.