Team:Amplino/Problem

From 2012e.igem.org

Challenge

Every year 300 million people get infected with malaria, and 1 million die because of it. One of the challenges in dealing with malaria lies in diagnostics. Malaria is prevalent in developing countries in which there are not nearly enough tests, WHO states there is a need for 1.6 billion tests annually to deal with the disease, but only 16 million are delivered. On top of that the available tests don’t work in a number of cases. For instance, in pregnant women, concentration of parasites is too low to detect with traditional diagnostic tools, ultimately resulting in many deaths every year.