Showing posts with label PCR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PCR. Show all posts
Saturday, 5 November 2016

During the first 4 weeks of life "common cold" viruses occur frequently and can make your little one sick....

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Friday, 8 April 2016

Describing the brain anomalies in some infants born with microcephaly

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In a new study by Hazin and colleagues, 7 of 23 (30.4%) infants with congenital microcephaly were found to have IgM antibodies (which indic...
Sunday, 6 March 2016

Detecting Zika viruses using PCR: a look at published assays...

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[NOTE: I'll update this post with other assays and information as I find time] You may be helped - hopefully anyway - by reading the ...
Thursday, 3 March 2016

Primers prime PCR unless past their prime...

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The PCR is a tough old bird...  The  polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a hugely powerful  tool for detecting virus. It can still do this ...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

A negative viral culture result is not the end of the story...just a negative result

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Lately, for both Ebola virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, there have been instances where I've been reminded that o...
Tuesday, 5 May 2015

The mechanics of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...a primer

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PCR primers...a primer!

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Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)...a primer

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Thursday, 8 May 2014

Pressure testing...

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Comments in the recent ScienceInsider article (a great  read by the way [1]) interview with Prof Christian Drosten got me to thinking. Wh...
Saturday, 1 February 2014

Neither market nor farm poultry all that positive for H7N9; songbirds the culprit...?

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Following on from yesterday's post, " If not poultry then what? ", I thought it worth noting the impressive numbers from the C...
Thursday, 23 January 2014

Market sampling: H7N9, sensitive testing, market closures and small numbers

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A World Health Organization Western Pacific Region update on influenza A (H7N9) virus has a few interesting bits of information that pulls t...
Monday, 13 January 2014

H5N1 case in Canada had been diagnosed with pneumonia...testing at the source would have been helpful

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And now, from a fantastically detailed post onto ProMED by Fonseca and colleagues, we see that the H5N1 case was diagnosed with pneumonia. ...
Monday, 25 November 2013

No symptoms but still shedding virus?

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Click on image to enlarge. A stylized trace of the temperatures during a PCR cycle. D-denaturation, when primers and double-stranded D...