Matthijs Welkers
@flahless.bsky.social
Clinical microbiologist/virologist at AmsterdamUMC, The Netherlands. Focus on viral evolution & sequencing. Flahless like RNA polymerase. Views are my own.
🧪New paper out! Together with parasitologists from AmsterdamUMC and Rijnstate hospital we tested a faster & safer way to diagnose malaria when VHFs can't be completely ruled out using Zymo tubes + LAMP -> no more need for full BSL-3 gear. Read more: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Enhancing safety of rapid and accurate malaria diagnosis in patients at risk for viral haemorrhagic fever - Malaria Journal
Background Malaria and viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) have overlapping symptomatology, creating clinical and diagnostic challenges within, and in travellers returning from, co-endemic areas. Rapid and...
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🧪New paper out! Together with parasitologists from AmsterdamUMC and Rijnstate hospital we tested a faster & safer way to diagnose malaria when VHFs can't be completely ruled out using Zymo tubes + LAMP -> no more need for full BSL-3 gear. Read more: malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....