{"id":85564,"date":"2020-05-24T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15634"},"modified":"2020-05-24T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T19:42:09","slug":"national-community-based-sero-survey-to-estimate-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-community-based-sero-survey-to-estimate-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"National community-based sero-survey to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sero Survey:<\/strong> It involves testing the blood samples of a group of individuals to monitor trends in prevalence of the novel coronavirus or SARS-COV-2 infection at the district level.<\/li><li>Under this, a combination of Elisa antibody kits and RT-PCR will be used for testing.For RT-PCR tests, throat and nasal swabs will be collected.<\/li><li><strong>Bodies Involved:<\/strong> Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) and the National Centre for Disease Control in collaboration with key stakeholders and state Health Departments.<\/li><li><strong>Why Sero Survey: <\/strong>It will involve high and low-risk groups in select districts.This will help the government and its agencies monitor Covid-19 trends but also check for community transmission in any part of the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Community Transmission:<\/strong> It means that the source of infection for the spread of an illness is unknown or a link in terms of contacts between patients and other people is missing.<\/li><li><strong>Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction(RT-PCR) Tests<\/strong>:It is a nuclear-derived method for detecting the presence of specific genetic material from any pathogen including a virus.<\/li><li><strong>ELISA Test:<\/strong> ELISA stands for enzyme-linked immunoassay.It is a commonly used laboratory test to detect antibodies in the blood<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts: Sero Survey: It involves testing the blood samples of a group of individuals to monitor trends in prevalence of the novel coronavirus or SARS-COV-2 infection at the district level. Under this, a combination of Elisa antibody kits and RT-PCR will be used for testing.For RT-PCR tests, throat and nasal swabs will be collected. Bodies&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-community-based-sero-survey-to-estimate-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National community-based sero-survey to estimate prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2028,2937],"class_list":["post-85564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-coronavirus","tag-sero-survey","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700782269,"cached_date":1704812294},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85564","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=85564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}