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Ahibole olob hapta ‘FELUDA’ test olabo

Agencies, 11 October: Sunday te Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan koise, nejor para bona “FELUDA” Covid-19 test toh ahibole olob hapta te olabole bhabona kori ase.

Union Health Minister para etu thakibole/olabole nemide thek direk toh janaidebole napari koise hoilebe etu test toh anibole olob hapta te olabole nemide  biswas koribo pari koise.  

FNCAS9 Editor-Limited Uniform Detection Assay (FELUDA) test toh pregnancy test nesana paper strip test ase aro etu toh commercial suru nemide Drug Controller General of India para manishe.

Satyajit Ray para ola (created) bechide test toh Tata CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) aro Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) para bonaishe.

Dr Souvik Maiti aro Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty para CSIR-IGIB, FELUDA te bona para results toh 45 minutes te dae aro daam toh Rs 500 ase.

Harsh Vardhan para be IGIB te 2,000 patients opor ke trials lowa samai aro private labs te test samai te test te  96 percent sensitivity aro 98 percent specificity dekhise koise.

Tai para be test te Department of Atomic Energy’s Bengaluru-based National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore para valid kora be korikena ase koise.

FELUDA toh quantitative RT-PCR tests nemide option ase aro expers para highly specific paise. Experts hisaab te, etu para low copy number nucleic acids (less viral RNA quantity) aro single nucleotide variations toh janibole paribo. Etu para SARS-CoV-2 aro SARS-CoV sequences majode differentiate koribole paribo aro etu toh single nucleotide para alak alak ase.   

RT-PCR te olob khonda, trained manpower aro ekta dedicated aro daam laga machine lakae. Aro FELUDA para eki sensitivity aro specificity toh dae hoilebe khali sob jag ate thaka PCR machine  lakae aro besi trained manpower nalakae.