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Lyme disease, the most common tick-transmitted bacterial infection in the world, is challenging to diagnose. Initial early-stage symptoms may include skin rash, fever, headache, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and/or body and joint aches. However, these symptoms are also associated with many other diseases and medical conditions.

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Frequent testing improves the detection of SARS-CoV-2 Detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, improves with regularity of testing, whether using rapid antigen tests or PCR molecular tests. The PCR test is considered the gold standard for diagnosing COVID-19 infection, but cost and infrastructure issues, as well as wait times for PCR results, have limited its use more broadly as a screening tool for asymptomatic people because rapid results are needed to interrupt the chain of tran...

Lab reports 1st instance of SARS-CoV-2 variants affecting antigen test performance The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has entered the second year and is marked by the emergence of several new and more infectious variant lineages. Many of these variants are also associated with immune escape. The mutations in these variants are usually in the spike protein, which evolves rapidly in coronaviruses because of the continual need to escape humoral immunity. The ...

After screening more than 1,100 independently assessed, point-of-care COVID-19 tests, researchers at NSF International and Novateur Ventures have identified 5 direct (antigen/RNA) tests for detection of acute infection and 6 indirect (antibody) tests for detection of prior infection that meet the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) “desirable” Target Product Profile (TPP) criteria. The researchers hope their work will help communities and healthcare systems make more informed...

Share this article Share this article TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- GenCare Lifestyle, which operates six assisted living and retirement communities in the Puget Sound has launched the first-of-its-kind on-site, rapid testing for Covid-19 and flu with the ability to understand initial results within 15-30 minutes. The rapid test program administered by CAIPHI EP Testing mobile testing teams can provide results within minutes at each of GenCares six assisted living communities. T...