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India has witnessed a surge in Covid cases once again. Most of them have been attributed to JN.1, a sub-lineage of the Omicron variant, whic ...

Home collection tests: The test kit prompts you to collect a sample at home (a nose or throat swab) and send it to a lab. The lab then performs a Polymerase Chain Reaction ...

A diagnosis of measles was thought likely, and confirmed by positive PCR for measles virus from a throat swab. Real-time PCR of viral ribonucleic acid for the H and N gene was verified by the UK ...

Conventional otoscopy is a practical technique that saves a considerable amount of time during examination, but it may not be sufficient in certain cases (COLE, 2004; GRIFFIN, 2006).Some authors have ...

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Specimen Collection and Broth Cultures. The specimens were collected by nurses according to Infection Control Committee protocols. Briefly each swab was carefully introduced in the anal sphincter ...