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2021年6月2日—CCMB,MerilDiagnosticsjoinhandstoscaleupdryswabtests...HYDERABAD,June02,202123:12IST.Updated:June02,202123:12IST ...

CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) on Wednesday tied up with Meril Diagnostics for commercially scaling up the dry swab-based tests across diagnostic labs in the country. Meril’s extraction-free dry swab kit can be used to isolate the viral RNA from dry swab samples and these isolates can then be directly used for RT-PCR.

This ‘simple and fast method’ of dry swab-based Direct RT-PCR has been developed by CCMB and approved by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) based on their independent validation. It is a simple variation of the existing gold standard RT-PCR method and can easily scale up the testing by two-three-fold with no new investment of resources, said director Dr. Vinay Nandicoori.

“In this method, one can simply break open the cells by using appropriate buffer solution and use them for RT-PCR directly. There is no need for separate steps of RNA extraction ...