{"id":7889,"date":"2020-05-13T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2020-05-13T16:58:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T11:28:27","slug":"first-indigenous-antibody-based-testing-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/first-indigenous-antibody-based-testing-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"First indigenous antibody-based testing kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thetechportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/EXqMwv3UEAAuko3.jpg\" alt=\"India's National Institute of Virology develops first indigenous ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 National Institute of Virology, Pune, has developed India\u2019s first indigenous antibody-based ELISA test kit \u2013 COVID KAVACH for diagnosis of novel Corona Virus.<\/p>\n<p><b>About:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The kit has displayed high sensitivity and accuracy in the validation tests at different sites. It can test around 90 samples in approximately two and a half hours. The technology has been transferred to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies for mass-scale production.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<strong> This is the first time India has developed an indigenous Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test for coronavirus. ELISA is routinely used for detecting HIV infection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The test will detect antibodies in blood samples that the body develops in response to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The ELISA test developed by NIV gains significance as the rapid antibody tests imported from China were found to be unreliable and hence the States were instructed not to use them for detecting previous novel coronavirus infection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science Why in news? \u2022 National Institute of Virology, Pune, has developed India\u2019s first indigenous antibody-based ELISA test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}