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China to Mass Produce Fast SARS Test Kit
People Daily ^
| 4.22.03
Posted on 04/21/2003 9:35:08 PM PDT by Enemy Of The State
China to Mass Produce Fast SARS Test Kit
China will mass produce a fast SARS test kit as soon as the method is approved by the country's medical authority, a senior Chinese biologist said Monday in Beijing.
The method, called the Enzyme Link Immuno Adsorbent Assay (ELISA), could detect the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus within one hour, according to Yang Huanming, director of theBeijing Genomics Institute (BGI) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yang said the current estimated daily production of the test kit could meet the demands of 10,000 people, and the output is expected to grow greatly to 100,000 a day soon.
Prior to the ELISA, China had already developed an assay that could detect the SARS virus within two hours, called the Immuno Fluorescence Assay (IFA).
Compared with IFA, ELISA was more convenient to operate and less costly, Yang said.
He said the report on the method had been submitted to China's medical authority for approval.
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I wonder if they can mass produce the fast test as quickly as they mass produced the damn disease?
To: Enemy Of The State
Now that's one Made in China product that had better work.
To: Filibuster_60
Agree. It seems that the only way to fight the spread of this disease is to quickly identify the patients and quarantine them.
Fortunately, we are going into the summer season, and that also tends to suppress the spread of cold (the deadly version, in this case).
To: Enemy Of The State
Is it on the K-Mart shelves yet? Now, that would be self-serving, wouldn't it?
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posted on
04/22/2003 9:46:46 AM PDT
by
mikeIII
To: Enemy Of The State
I wonder if they can mass produce the fast test as quickly as they mass produced the damn disease?Right, and while they are at it why don't they mass produce a vaccine.
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posted on
04/22/2003 9:53:46 AM PDT
by
riri
To: Enemy Of The State
This basic approach has apparently been tried, and failed, already.
The problem seems to be that a person needs to have been symptomatic for many days (sometimes two weeks) before anti-bodies show in the blood in sufficient quantity to detect. Hence, this approach has been useless for any practical diagnostic work.
However, if the test is sensitive enough, perhaps the Chinese have something. We can hope.
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04/22/2003 9:58:55 AM PDT
by
EternalHope
(Boycott everything French forever.)
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