Last week, I was about to go on a date, and because I'm severely immunocompromised, we agreed he would take a COVID test ...

Dr. T S Selvavinayagam discusses the adaptability of Tamil Nadu's RT-PCR labs for future viral and bacterial disease diagnostics at a national conclave on vector-borne diseases in Madurai. Learn about ...

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial diseases.

The automated real-time PCR-based test detects DNA from the virus that causes mpox using a dual-target approach and runs on Roche's high-throughput Cobas 6800/8800 systems. The EUL process is intended ...

New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited domestic firms to manufacture quick Mpox detection tests ...

Claims that PCR tests are useless at diagnosing bird flu and other viruses indicate a lack of understanding of how the tests work, experts say.

Antigen tests are not typically as sensitive as real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and other nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) that identify genetic pieces of a ...

ProbeLibrary, a fast, specific and flexible format for quantitative real-time PCR, is described. The ProbeLibrary concept is based on the fact that just 90 short probes provide transcriptome-wide ...

Tamil Nadu takes steps to contain dengue spread; microbiologists play crucial role in pandemic control and climate change ...

While previous Marburg virus outbreaks typically had case fatality rates sometimes exceeding 80 per cent, Rwanda's current ...

In an open letter, the organization called on Danaher and its subsidiary Cepheid to further lower the price of its Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra tuberculosis test.