The Near-Point-of-Care Bead Beater (nPOC-BB) is a portable laboratory instrument designed to prepare challenging samples for nucleic acid amplification tests by efficiently releasing amplifiable genomic DNA from difficult-to-lyse microorganisms.
This repository contains the design and data files related to development and evaluation of the nPOC-BB in the context of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) detection in tongue swab or sputum specimens.
Please read the docs to find out more about the nPOC-BB project and its history of development at Global Health Labs. Another overview of this project and other projects developed at Global Health Labs will be collected at Gates Open Research.