Real-time Malaria Detection in the Amazon Rainforest via Drone-Collected eDNA and Portable qPCR
Yin Cheong Aden Ip, Luca Montemartini, Jia Jin Marc Chang, Andrea Desiderato, Nicolás D. Franco‐Sierra, Christian Geckeler, Mailyn Adriana Gonzalez, Michele Gregorini, Meret Jucker, Steffen Kirchgeorg, Martina N. Lüthi, Elvira Mächler, Frederik Bendix Thostrup, Guglielmo Murari, Marina Mura, , Kristy Deiner
The paper develops a drone-based eDNA sampling and portable qPCR method for real-time malaria detection in the Amazon, using Plasmodium DNA and howler monkey acoustic data.
One Health · Aug 21, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology