World Health Organization endorses Fifteen Minute Ebola Test
The new Ebola test, which takes fifteen minutes and does not require electricity, has been approved by the World Health Organization for use in Africa, The Guardian reports. To hold it you need a few drops of blood from your finger. The PCR-based method used now required blood sampling from a vein and its transportation to a laboratory with trained personnel — it takes from several hours to days or more, depending on distance.
Express test will be a great helper for physicians in remote areas.
The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, it has caused several serious epidemics. It was first opened in 1976 in the Ebola River Basin in Zaire. The latest outbreaks were recorded in November 2012 and January 2013 in Uganda, where the death rate is about 50%, and in 2012 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the death rate was 36%. Diagnostics makes it difficult to distant locations of settlements from equipped clinics with laboratories and specialists: blood for analysis requires transportation, which takes from several hours to several days.
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Instead of searching for the genetic material of the virus - its nucleic acid - the new test The ReEBOV Antigen detects the Ebola protein. This is a little less accurate than the “classic” PCR analysis, but it will identify Ebola-infected with an accuracy of ninety-two percent, and non-infected with an accuracy of eighty-five percent.
Express test will be a great helper for physicians in remote areas.
The Ebola virus causes hemorrhagic fever, it has caused several serious epidemics. It was first opened in 1976 in the Ebola River Basin in Zaire. The latest outbreaks were recorded in November 2012 and January 2013 in Uganda, where the death rate is about 50%, and in 2012 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the death rate was 36%. Diagnostics makes it difficult to distant locations of settlements from equipped clinics with laboratories and specialists: blood for analysis requires transportation, which takes from several hours to several days.
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Instead of searching for the genetic material of the virus - its nucleic acid - the new test The ReEBOV Antigen detects the Ebola protein. This is a little less accurate than the “classic” PCR analysis, but it will identify Ebola-infected with an accuracy of ninety-two percent, and non-infected with an accuracy of eighty-five percent.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/376747/
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