The dengue virus (DENV) is a vector-borne flavivirus that infects around 390 million
individuals each year with 2.5 billion being in danger. Having access to testing is paramount …

ABSTRACT Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness
caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), had its …

COVID-19, a highly transmissible pandemic disease, is affecting millions of lives around the
world. Severely infected patients show acute respiratory distress symptoms. Sustainable …

A group of infectious and parasitic diseases with prevalence in tropical and subtropical
regions of the planet, especially in places with difficult access, internal conflicts, poverty, and …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections occur in approximately 3% of the world population. The
development of an enhanced and extensive-scale screening is required to accomplish the …

For conception, sperm cells travel towards the oocyte. This journey is accomplished by only
a few sperm cells, following various guidance mechanisms. Of these mechanisms, rheotaxis …

The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was first isolated in late 2019; it has spread to all
continents, infected over 700 million people, and caused over 7 million deaths worldwide to …

Beschreibungen: Flaviviruses are well known to be a world-wide threat and the lack of
vaccines and treatments for most of them indicates the need to reduce the current impact of …

Objective To investigate whether the presented rheotaxis-based microfluidic device could be
used to separate spermatozoa from viruses (ie, Zika) in the infected semen sample during …

The ultimate challenge for assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) is to select the most
competent sperm population from a semen sample in an efficient way. In this thesis, we …