Researchers often call the polymerase chain reaction test – known as the PCR test – "the gold standard" for detecting the COVID-19 virus. The test is considered highly reliable and effective, and it ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic yielded important advances in testing for respiratory viruses, but it also exposed important unmet needs in screening to prevent the spread of infections in high-risk settings.

These tests have very limited clinical use. The need for antibody testing would be to determine if a patient has recovered from COVID-19, and whether we could take a sample of the patient’s plasma to ...

An international team led by UNIGE finds that a third of positive mpox PCR tests conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) reflected environmental contamination of samples rather than ...

The central government is expanding its free COVID-19 testing program to prevent the Omicron variant from spreading just as Japanese head to their hometowns for the New Year's holidays.

Paper title Rapid multiplex PCR directly from positive blood cultures shortens time to effective antimicrobial modification in patients with bloodstream infections: a randomized controlled trial2.