{"id":108626,"date":"2021-05-25T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=108626"},"modified":"2021-05-28T18:56:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:26:51","slug":"kyasanur-forest-disease-icmr-niv-develops-a-new-point-of-care-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kyasanur-forest-disease-icmr-niv-develops-a-new-point-of-care-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221; Kyasanur Forest Disease&#8221; &#8211; ICMR-NIV Develops a New Point-of-Care Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>A new point-of-care test has been developed for the rapid diagnosis of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD).<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Point-of-Care Test:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, the Point-of-Care Test <\/strong>has been developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, the test kit <\/strong>includes a battery-operated <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/polymerase-chain-reactionpcr\/\">Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).<\/a> The analyser is portable and lightweight. The kit also has a universal cartridge-based sample pre-treatment kit and nucleic acid extraction device that aid in sample processing at the point of care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of Point of Care Test:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Point of Care tests <\/strong>would be beneficial for the diagnosis of KFD. It is because the outbreaks mainly happen in remote areas where there is a lack of well-equipped sample handling and laboratory testing facilities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The test kit would also be useful<\/strong> in quick patient management and controlling the further spread of the virus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>About Kyasanur Forest disease:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, the Kyasanur Forest disease <\/strong>is caused by a Kyasanur Forest disease virus. The disease primarily affects humans and monkeys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly, India: <\/strong>The disease was first identified in the Kyasanur forest of Shimoga district in Karnataka during an investigation of monkey mortalities in 1957.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly, Symptoms: <\/strong>The disease is characterized by chills, frontal headache, body ache, and high fever for five to 12 days with a case fatality rate of 3 to 5%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourthly, Transmission:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Rodents, shrews, and monkeys are common hosts for KFDV after being bitten by an infected tick.<\/li>\n<li>Transmission to humans may occur after a tick bite or contact with an infected animal, most importantly a sick or recently dead monkey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifthly, Diagnosis<\/strong>: Diagnosis can be made in the early stage of illness. It can be done by molecular detection by PCR or virus isolation from blood.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixthly, Treatment<\/strong>: There is no specific treatment for KFD. A vaccine (Formalin inactivated KFDV vaccine) does exist for KFD and is used in endemic areas of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/icmr-niv-develops-new-point-of-care-testing-for-kyasanur-forest-disease-7324818\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A new point-of-care test has been developed for the rapid diagnosis of Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD). About Point-of-Care Test: Firstly, the Point-of-Care Test has been developed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Virology. Secondly, the test kit includes a battery-operated Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). The analyser is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kyasanur-forest-disease-icmr-niv-develops-a-new-point-of-care-testing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8221; Kyasanur Forest Disease&#8221; &#8211; ICMR-NIV Develops a New Point-of-Care Testing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,7965,9],"tags":[1315,1289],"class_list":["post-108626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_1","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700432090},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}