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Isolde Birdthistle and co-workers evaluate a program to address risks of HIV infection in adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa.
Korean Covid-19 Test Maker Prepares For IPO Amid Revenue Leap, Founder To Become Billionaire Share to Facebook COURTESY OF SD Biosensor Cho Young-sik, founder of Covid-19 test maker SD Biosensor, is set to become a billionaire this month, when the South Korean company is expected to list its shares on the Korea Exchange. SD Biosensor is offering 12.4 million shares at a price range of 45,000 won to 52,000 won apiece. At the midpoint of that range, the deal could raise 603 billion won (about $530 million) and value the company at 4.9 trillion won. The subscription period is to start July 8 and...
Gold Standard Diagnostics (GSD) recently announced FDA clearance of a new B. burgdorferi IgG/IgM VlsE-OspC EIA test. This test, when used in conjunction with the other FDA cleared GSD Lyme EIA tests can be used in the CDC recommended modified two-tiered testing (MTTT) algorithm. Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes/CDC In 2014, the CDC issued an updated recommendation for the serologic diagnosis of Lyme disease, endorsing the use of a two-tier testing algorithm that uses a second enzyme immunoassay, or EIA, in place of a western immunoblot assay. Gold Standard Diagnostics now offers a solution fo...
Plasmodium falciparum populations from Sudan, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Eritrea (A), and pfhrp2 and ... We amplified and scored 7 microsatellite loci for each sample from Sudan, South Sudan, and Nigeria (n = 86), finding 88 unique haplotypes. Two samples shared a haplotype, and we observed 2 instances of multiple haplotype infection. All 7 microsatellite markers were found to be polymorphic. We found a mean of 11 alleles per locus, a range from 6 (microsatellite markers TA109 and 2490) to 16 (microsatellite marker 383) distinct alleles. We found the genetic relatedness of P. falciparum popu...