Tick-borne diseases and tropical fevers

Tick and tropical fever prevention

Summer is just around the corner. It’s important to be pre-equipped with diagnostic kits to detect arbovirosis and other vector-borne diseases such as ticks and mosquitoes.

Back in June 2018, the Ministry of Health issued the National Surveillance Plan and informed that between 2000 and 2016 alone, 456 laboratory-confirmed cases of TBE were reported.

The data are, however, rising sharply. Rising temperatures, and more specifically the tropicalization of Europe, is increasing the risk of local development of infectious and tropical diseases. Italy is among the countries that have experienced the greatest increase in tick- and mosquito-borne diseases in recent years. Also looming is the specter of the arrival of Aedes aegypti, the tropical mosquito that transmits Yellow Fever and Dengue.

Detecting the viral genome by RT-qPCR is extremely specific. This is of paramount importance considering that interpretation of serological test results is often made difficult by the cross-reactivity of antibodies produced against arboviruses.

LionDx offers highly innovative kits:
  • many of them unparalleled in the market
  • CE-IVD-marked
  • multiplex
  • open to the most common instruments
  • most of them with the same thermal profile
therefore usable in the same analytical session!
LionDx kits for arbovirus identification:
  • Tick Borne Encephalitis virus
  • Tick Borne Encephalitis virus and West Nile virus (multiplex)
  • Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, Dengue viruses 1-4 and Yellow Fever virus (multiplex).
LionDx panel entirely devoted to tick-borne diseases:
  • Coxiella burnetii
  • Babesia divergens, Babesia microti, Babesia spp EU1
  • chaffeensis, E. ewingii, Anaplasma phagocytophilum
  • Rickettsia spp
  • Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato)
  • Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) and Rickettsia (multiplex).
TBE RealTime PCR CE IVD
TBE West Nile Virus
Download the circular of the "MSAL"National Arbovirosis Prevention and Surveillance Plan 2020-2025Definition of "TBE" case.

Species detected: Tick Borne Encephalitis virus, West Nile virus

TBEV & WNV

Unique kit

Kit name: alphaCube TBEV/WNV

Test number: 32/96

Sample: biological

Species detected: Tick Borne Encephalitis virus

Kit name: alphaCube TBE

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and from ticks

Species detected: Babesia divergens, Babesia microti e Babesia sp. EU1

Kit name: alphaCube Babesia

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and from ticks

Species detected: Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato)

Kit name: alphaCube Borrelia

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and from ticks

Species detected: Borrelia burgdorferi (sensu lato) and Rickettsia

Kit name: alphaCube Borrelia/Rickettsia

Test number: 32/96

Sample: biological and from ticks

Species detected: E. chaffeensis, E. ewingii, Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Kit name: alphaCube Ehrlichia

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and from ticks

Species detected: Rickettsia spp

Kit name: alphaCube Rickettsia

Test number: 32/96

Sample: biological

Species detected: Coxiella burnetii

Kit name: alphaCube Q-Fever

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and from ticks

Species detected: Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, Dengue viruses 1-4 e Yellow Fever virus

Kit name: alphaCube Tropical Fever 1

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical

Hepatitis

Species detected: HEV (Hepatitis E virus)

Kit name: ampliCube HEV 2.0 Quant

Test number: 50

Sample: plasma, serum and feces

Sexually transmitted infections

Species detected: Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Mycoplasma genitalium

Kit name: ampliCube STD Panel 1

Test number: 50

Sample: urine or urogenital strips

Species detected: Trichomonas vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma parvum and Ureaplasma urealyticum

Kit name: ampliCube STD Panel 2.1

Test number: 32/96

Sample: urine or urogenital strips

Species detected: Herpes Simplex Virus (1, 2), Treponema pallidum

Kit name: ampliCube STD Panel 3

Test number: 32/96

Sample: urogenital strips

Gastrointestinal infections

Species detected: Campylobacter, Salmonella, Yersinia enterocolitica

Kit name: ampliCube Gastrointestinal Bacterial Panel 1

Test number: 50

Sample: feces

Species detected: EHEC/VTEC (STX1+2), Shigella/EIEC ETEC

Kit name: ampliCube Gastrointestinal Bacterial Panel 2

Test number: 50

Sample: feces

Species detected: Norovirus (Genogroup I e II), Rotavirus, Adenovirus

Kit name: ampliCube Gastrointestinal Viral Panel 1

Test number: 50

Sample: feces

Species detected: Sapovirus, Astrovirus

Kit name: ampliCube Gastrointestinal Viral Panel 2

Test number: 50

Sample: feces

Species detected: Norovirus (Genogroup I & II), Adenovirus, Rotavirus

Kit name: alphaCube gastroplexVirus

Test number: 32/96

Sample: feces

Species detected: Norovirus Genogroup I, Norovirus Genogroup II, Adenovirus, Rotavirus, Astrovirus, Sapovirus

Kit name: alphaCube gastroplexVirus PLUS 2.0

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical, environmental and food

Species detected: Enterovirus (Coxsackievirus A, Coxsackievirus B, Echovirus, numbered Enteroviruses, Polioviruses)

Kit name: alphaCube Entero 2.0

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical and environmental

Species detected: Norovirus (Genogroup I & II)

Kit name: alphaCube Noro

Test number: 96

Sample: feces, environmental and food

Respiratory infections

Species detected: Bordetella pertussis, parapertussis

Kit name: alphaCube Bordetella

Test number: 32/96

Sample: clinical

Species detected: Legionella pneumophila

Kit name: alphaCube Legionella

Test number: 32/96

Sample:

Species detected: Legionella spp.

Kit name: alphaCube PanLegionella

Test number: 32/96

Sample:

Species detected: Chlamydophila pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila, Legionella spp.

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Bacterial Panel 1.1

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Bordetella pertussis, parapertussis, holmesii

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Bacterial Panel 2

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Bacterial Panel 3

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Moraxella catarrhalis, Klebsiella pneumoniae and oxytoca

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Bacterial Panel 4

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Kit name: alphaCube MTB

Test number: 32/96

Sample:

Species detected: Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTB), Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM), Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)

Kit name: alphaCube MTB/ NTM/MAC

Test number: 32/96

Sample: biological

Species detected: MERS-CoV, SARS-Coronaviruses (include SARS-CoV-2 / COVID 19), Human Coronaviruses (NL63, OC43, 229E, HKU1)

Kit name: ampliCube Coronavirus Panel

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: SARS-Coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19

Kit name: ampliCube Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Test number: 50/500

Sample:

Species detected: SARS-Coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 (In addition, a human gene is detected as an endogenous control)

Kit name: ampliCube Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 plus

Test number: 50/500

Sample:

Species detected: Influenza A, Influenza B and SARS-CoV

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Flu & SARS-CoV-2

Test number: 50/500

Sample:

Species detected: Influenza A, Influenza B, Influenza A H1N1

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Viral Panel 1

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Parainfluenza 1-4, Bocavirus

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Viral Panel 2

Test numer: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Parechovirus, Metapneumovirus, RSV (A,B)

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Viral Panel 3

Test numer: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Rhinovirus / Enterovirus, Adenovirus

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Viral Panel 4

Test number: 50

Sample:

Species detected: Influenza A, Influenza B, RSV (A, B)

Kit name: ampliCube Respiratory Viral Panel 5

Test number: 50

Sample: sputum, swabs, BAL or tracheal secretions

Species detected: Enterovirus (Coxsackievirus A, Coxsackievirus B, Echovirus, numbered Enteroviruses, Polioviruses)

Kit name: alphaCube Entero 2.0

Test number: 32/96

Sample:

Species detected: Influenza A and B, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Kit name: alphaCube respiraRNA 3.0

Test number: 32/96

Sample:

Antibiotic resistance genes

Species detected: NDM, KPC, GIM (German Imipenemase)

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel 1

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers

Species detected: NDM, KPC, SPM (Sao Paolo Metallo-ß-Lactamase)

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel 2

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers

Species detected: CTX-M15 (group 1) and CTX-M14 (group 9)

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel 3

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers

Species detected: IMP, VIM, OXA-48-like

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel 4

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers

Species detected: NDM, OXA-23-like / OXA-24/40-like; OXA-58-like; ISAba1 / OXA-51-like

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel 5

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers

Species detected: cfr (A/B) / optrA, vanA, vanB

Kit name: ampliCube MDR Panel

Test number: 50

Sample: extracts of resistant bacterial isolates or eluates containing nucleic acids from clinical buffers