Publications by authors named "Viswanath Gorti"
Neutropenia is a condition comprising an abnormally low number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell, which puts patients at an increased risk of severe infections. Neutropenia is especially common among cancer patients and can disrupt their treatment or even be life-threatening in severe cases. Therefore, routine monitoring of neutrophil counts is crucial.
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- Deep-ultraviolet microscopy is a new approach for high-resolution, label-free molecular imaging that can quickly analyze blood at the point-of-care.
- The researchers developed a smaller, more affordable deep-UV microscope system using inexpensive optics and components, which contrasts with the previous bulky and costly setups.
- This compact system can accurately scan and analyze blood smears for hemoglobin content and white blood cells, and it is about 10 times cheaper than previous versions, making it suitable for wider applications in biomedicine.
The recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which spread across the globe in a very short period of time, revealed that the transmission control of disease is a crucial step to prevent an outbreak and effective screening for viral infectious diseases is necessary. Since the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, infrared thermography (IRT) has been considered a gold standard method for screening febrile individuals at the time of pandemics. The objective of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of IRT for screening infectious diseases with specific applications to COVID-19.
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