KMC lab finds new COVID-19 variant with origin in Kurnool
The NovaSeq 6000 machine that is used in diagnosis. Besides, it collaborates with CSIR institute to employ new protocol for diagnosing the virus with high confidence Kurnool Medical College’s VRDL is the first laboratory in South India to collaborate in employing a new protocol – ‘COVIDSeq Next-Generation Sequencing’ – for diagnosis and phylogenetic analysis of SARS nCoV-2 (COVID-19) samples. This is the next-generation confirmatory test for COVID-19 done at CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, and will be useful for other viruses in the future. The sequencing a...
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