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Metabolic testing of COVID-19 patients through skin imprints The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), shows no sign of abating soon. In fact, the recent surge of cases caused by new and potentially more lethal variants of the virus, with immune evasion capabilities, threatens to overwhelm healthcare systems in many countries, even as vaccines are being rolled out in many. There is, therefore, a great need to understand how the illness can be diagnosed using more convenient and inexpensive methods. A new study posted t...

Can sniffer dogs be trained to detect SARS-CoV-2 infection? All over the world, the successive and frequently larger waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have made it difficult to obtain adequate supplies of the testing kits and reagents required for the gold standard of infection detection: reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR). The time required to obtain a readout of the results is also long, creating transmission hazards for those with asymptomatic infection. Meanwhile, large-scale exposure to the virus occurs, and the pandemic gallops out of control. A new stud...

2 Min Read Published on: 3 hours ago Faculty and students from Loma Linda University School of Public Health have been monitoring possible COVID-19 exposure by testing wastewater on the school campus in Loma Linda, California, United States. Ryan Sinclair, professor in the School of Public Health, has applied Wastewater Based Epidemiology (WBE) as an innovative method of surveillance. Wastewater monitoring has been used historically to track enteric viruses and other pathogens, including the poliovirus vaccine and wildtype strains, norovirus, and others, and drugs such as...

Posted April 5th, 2021 for Pathkits Pathkits is an ICMR approved testing kits manufacturer based in India. Currently Pathkits has achieved a milestone of selling 50 Million VTM kits, and has become largest supplier in India. VTM (Viral Transport Medium) kits and becomes the largest supplier in India. Since COVID-19 drastically hit the nation, there’s been a huge demand among medical authorities and hospitals to have VTM kits to collect and transport viruses from one place to another. Although the cases are declining now, the demand is showing no signs of slowing down.  City, State, In...

email article Dolutegravir (Tivicay)-based antiretroviral therapy in children with HIV infection was superior to efavirenz-based standard of care in the first-line setting in a prospective trial, researchers reported. In her presentation at the virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Anna Turkova, MD, of University College London, added that in the second-line setting, it appears dolutegravir-based treatment is at least non-inferior to current treatment regimens. Reporting for the ODYSSEY/PENTA-20 Trial team, she said the international, multicenter, randomized 9...