RAMP Biodetection System Highlights

 

The RAMP^® Biodetection System

 
The RAMP System is a highly sensitive, portable testing platform that delivers accurate and reliable results in less than 15 minutes.
 
Tests for Anthrax, Ricin, Botulinum Toxin and Pox viruses, including smallpox, are available in convenient kits of 25 tests.
 
RAMP has the exclusive designation of being the ONLY commercially available hand-held anthrax test to meet new AOAC/DHS funded study standards.Learn more about how the RAMP System works.
 

System Highlights

 
RAMP is designed to provide first responders and public safety workers with rapid, on-site, reliable diagnostic information. To use, a small sample is added to a single-use Test Cartridge, which is then inserted into a portable Reader.

• Only hand-held system to meet new AOAC /DHS funded study standards
• Rapid results - less than 15 minutes
• Sensitive - 4,000 anthrax spores
• Simple to use with minimal training
• Free on-site training
• No calibration or maintenance

Specificity and Sensitivity

 
Specificity testing to determine if the Anthrax test cross-reacts with other strains of Bacillus was conducted. Potentially interfering substances (powders) were tested to determine the effects on the Anthrax, Bot Tox and Ricin tests. All results were negative. The RAMP Anthrax test did not cross-react with non-Bacillus strains.
 
The sensitivity of detection is as follows:

• Anthrax 4 ng (4,000 spores)
• Bot Tox 5 ng
• Ricin 10 ng
• Pox 3.6 ng

Test Evaluations

 
The RAMP System has been successfully evaluated by:

• DHS funded AOAC study, implemented at US Army Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, 2004. (PDF)
• US Army, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (PDF)
  Results presented at American Society for Microbiology Meeting, Washington, DC, 2002
• Canadian Military, DRDC, Medicine Hat, Alberta
• State of Maryland Department of Health, Maryland and Intertox, Seattle
• RAMP High Accuracy from Immunochromatographic Assay by the Use of Internal Control Ratios (PDF)
  Results presented at the 35th Annual Oak Ridge Conference, Virginia, 2003