Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing from Human Dried Blood Spots Collected Remotely

A system for collecting samples and determining the presence of STI in blood samples, the system comprising:

• a dried-blood spot collection card configured to collect blood samples from a human patient in a setting that is remote from an analysis laboratory;
• a chip-punching device configured to punch chips at the analysis laboratory from a dried-blood spot collection card after blood samples have been collected remotely and received at the analysis laboratory;
• an elution preparation station configured to receive the punched chips into an elution and configured to add one or more reagents to the elution in preparation for an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay;
• an instrument preparation station configured to assemble the prepared elution onto an instrument for use in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay;
• and
• an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay station configured to analyze the prepared enzyme-linked immunosorbent instrument and configured to determine the presence of one or more sexually transmitted infections on the assay.

An assay for determining presence of one or more sexually-transmitted infections from an elution prepared from a remotely collected dried-blood sample, the assay comprising:

• a microplate;
• an elution deposited onto the microplate, the elution comprising:
• at least material from one dried blood sample chip from a remotely collected dried blood sample;
• at least one reagent;
• and
• at least one calibrator or conjugate having at least one quality control parameter for analyzing presence of a sexually transmitted infection detectable from the dried blood spot.