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Image: The cobas 8800 fully integrated and automated system for sample preparation and real-time polymerase chain reactions (Photo courtesy of Roche).

Usutu Virus Infections Found among Austrian Blood Donors

Usutu virus (USUV) is an African mosquito-borne flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis virus serocomplex. USUV is closely related to Murray Valley encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and West Nile virus (WNV). More...
24 Oct 2017
Image: A drawing of the outside of one Zika virus particle, and a cross-section through another as it interacts with a cell (Photo courtesy of David Goodsell).

New Zika Serotypes Likely to Emerge in Future

A Brazilian researcher warns that Zika virus is mutating so fast in Brazilian patients that different serotypes could soon appear. This would hinder the production of a vaccine and impair the effectiveness of the diagnostic tests already developed. More...
23 Oct 2017
Image: The Quantiflour dsDNA system for sensitive quantitation of double-stranded DNA in solution (Photo courtesy of Promega).

Bacterial Composition Linked to Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women (after skin cancer) in the USA, where one in eight women will develop the disease in their lifetimes. Bacteria that live in the body is known as the microbiome, and influence many diseases. More...
19 Oct 2017
Image: The QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) is the fourth generation of the leading blood test for tuberculosis (Photo courtesy of Qiagen).

Improved Blood Test for TB Launched

Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious bacterial infection spread primarily by coughing of patients with the active pulmonary form of the disease. In 2015, it was estimated that there were 10.4 million new cases of active TB worldwide and 1.8 million deaths from TB. More...
18 Oct 2017
Image: Hookworm eggs examined microscopically on wet mount using the Kato-Katz technique (eggs of Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus cannot be distinguished morphologically. The embryo in (B) has begun cellular division and is at an early (gastrula) developmental stage (Photo courtesy of Vishnu Vardhan Serla / Maheep Sangha).

Diagnostic Sensitivity of Kato-Katz Technique Estimated

Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) and schistosomiasis are two of the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases with more than one billion and over 250 million people affected worldwide, respectively. More...
17 Oct 2017
Image: The Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium Assay (Photo courtesy of Hologic).

New Aptima Mycoplasma genitalium Assay Evaluated

Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) frequently causes non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) in males, and is associated with cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, endometritis and probably infertility. More...
12 Oct 2017
Image: The EbolaCheck device for the diagnosis of Ebola virus (Photo courtesy of Westminster University).

Rapid Screening Test Developed for Ebola Virus

During the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014, patients tested for the disease had to provide a blood sample for testing in a specialist laboratories by highly trained staff. There are only a few of these facilities in the world. More...
12 Oct 2017
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