{"id":261102,"date":"2023-09-21T20:48:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T15:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261102"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:43:15","slug":"icmr-nod-to-conduct-truenat-test-to-detect-nipah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-nod-to-conduct-truenat-test-to-detect-nipah\/","title":{"rendered":"ICMR nod to conduct Truenat test to detect Nipah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article \u201c<\/span><b>ICMR nod to conduct Truenat test to detect Nipah<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 21st September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala has been given permission by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to use Truenat test to diagnose Nipah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Truenat Test?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truenat is a chip-based, point-of-care, rapid molecular test for diagnosis of various diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a portable, chip-based and battery-operated machine developed by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goa-based Molbio Diagnostics Private Limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truenat tests use real-time micro polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This test has been approved by WHO and ICMR for TB diagnosis, Covid and other diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">raditional RT-PCR tests can take up to eight hours to complete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The TrueNat tests used the same scientific principle used in RT-PCR tests, but the results can be achieved in half an hour.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cICMR nod to conduct Truenat test to detect Nipah\u201d\u00a0 published in The Hindu on 21st September 2023 What is the News? Kerala has been given permission by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to use Truenat test to diagnose Nipah.\u00a0 What is the Truenat Test? Truenat&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/icmr-nod-to-conduct-truenat-test-to-detect-nipah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ICMR nod to conduct Truenat test to detect Nipah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-261102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261102","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}