Tag: zoonotic disease
Indigenous rapid detection kit ready to detect Nipah virus with 100% accuracy: Director, ICMR-NIV, ET HealthWorld
Pune: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has developed a portable test kit for detecting Nipah virus cases with 100 per cent accuracy, which can provide results within 1- 2 hours. According to Dr Naveen Kumar, Director, ICMR-NIV, Pune, “Based on amplification of viral gene without the need for a specialised machine at the…