Title: John_33 (23) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Description: Dried Blood Spot (DBS) Collection Cards are used for newborn screening, therapeutic drug monitoring, antibody testing and nucleic acid testing for an extensive period of time. DBS provide an easy and inexpensive way to collect and store peripheral blood specimens from infants, children, and adults and are specifically important in low-resource settings where storing and shipping frozen plasma are difficult. The DBS collection cards can be stored at room temperature may be shipped under ambient conditions or on dry ice. Due to this ease of use and storage the demand for dried blood spot collection cards has increased in various disease testing applications. As per the sources, around 2.5 million babies died in the first month of life due to lack of proper screening in 2018. This has risen the need for infants screening and to prevent these deaths. – PowerPoint PPT presentation