Dr. Harindu Wijesinghe is a medical specialist in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, as well as in Sports Medicine. He ...

Mombasa County has been hit by an outbreak of the Chikungunya disease. Health officials confirmed at least 25 positive cases ...

RT-PCR remains the gold standard for early detection, while antibody tests help confirm past or ongoing infections." Chikungunya is a viral disease spread by Aedes mosquitoes, causing fever, severe ...

One of the main news items in yesterday’s papers was regarding the deaths of two individuals due to suspected infection from ...

Recent advances in PCR amplification methods, which hold a great deal of promise for highly specific and sensitive virus detection assays, combine PCR amplification with fluorescently-labeled ...

PCR plays a pivotal role in mitigating the co-circulation of Zika and Chikungunya viruses by facilitating accurate diagnosis, surveillance, early detection, and research. These applications enable ...

Hence do not panic,” Dr. Dighe urged. He has also appealed against expensive tests like PCR for diagnosing chikungunya in case the symptoms are mild to moderate. “If a test Ns1 antigen rules ...

Many people are diagnosed without the PCR test, relying instead on matching symptoms and blood tests that show low platelet counts, which can be caused by chikungunya. Shoaib Khan, general ...

All real-time PCR systems rely upon the detection and quantitation of a fluorescent reporter, the signal of which increases in direct proportion to the amount of PCR product in a reaction.