Saakshi Bangera, DY Patil School of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Maharashtra’s first case of Zika virus has reported on Friday in a 50-year-old woman residing in the Purandar area of Pune. The health officials have confirmed that the woman has recovered, and at present, she and her family show no symptoms of the virus. The health […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University According to WHO, 390 million dengue infections are registered in the world every year. Dengue virus (DENV) spreads through a mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. This mosquito is restricted to regions with high human settlements, where it breeds in man-made containers inside and outside housings. The increase in […]
Raddur Samaddar, Team bioXone The pandemic is going about its length and breadth, in India, we have 9,43,990 active cases as of 2nd October 2020. The serological activity and also the cross-reactivity of the diseases are a major concern at this moment. A commercial SARS-CoV-2 ELISA test was used for patients diagnosed as Dengue, Zika, […]
–Arpita Adhikary, Amity University Kolkata When the 21st century is facing pandemic, it is reported that Dengue and coronavirus share almost similar clinical features that cannot be discriminated. There are few independent research studies that observed false-positive tests for coronavirus. In Singapore, two false-positive results from rapid serological testing for dengue was later confirmed to […]
