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Pathogen-agnostic testing reveals hidden respiratory threats in negative samples

The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term "Polymerase Chain Reaction testing" into the mainstream. The PCR method is a type of nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) that detects a pathogen by finding ...
Scientific American

Inside the race to develop a hantavirus PCR test

Researchers at the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory worked round the clock to develop a test for the Andes virus at the ...
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Cost of genetic testing, delayed care, and suboptimal treatment associated with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) versus next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing strategies in ...

Real world data for venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) in patients with active cancer: Thromboprophylaxis pooled analysis from GMaT and ACT4CAT studies.
News Medical

Testing acute fever with the Hi‐PCR® multiplex real-time PCR kit

Arthropod-borne diseases such as Dengue, Chikungunya, Malaria (caused by Plasmodium spp.), and Zika are endemic and re-emerging infections in tropical and subtropical regions. During heavy monsoon ...
Nature

How efficient, multi-pathogen PCR testing could transform diagnostics

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...