India’s first infectious disease diagnostic lab now ready

India’s first infectious disease diagnostic lab is now ready. This rapid response mobile labrotary is part of government Aatmnirbhar Bharat. This labrotary was built in a record time of eight days from the date of receipt of Automotive Chassis, from Bharat Benz.

About the lab:

• The first infectious disease diagnostics lab is a BSL-2 facility that has Biochemistry analysers, real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and on-site Elisa.
• Elisa is a technology designed for quantifying and detecting soluble substances such as proteins, antibodies, peptides, and hormones.
• The newly built disease diagnostics lab can easily test RT-PCR about 50 per day and ELISA about 200 per day.
• The lab has been built in the recorded time of just 8 days.

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