Researchers create test to detect all viruses in humans and animals

Researchers from Washington University have announced a huge breakthrough in the detection of virus. The team developed a super test which will be able to detect nearly all virus that are found in both humans & animals. And the best part is, the doctors do not even have to know what they’re searching for in order for this kit to work.

Dr. Gregory Storch, a pediatrics professor at Washington University made the announcement through a press release. This test kit known as ViroCap, is currently in the early development stages but already sounds like something out of science fiction. This scanner may just shake up the virus detection industry.

The technology may also be extremely effective and even able to detect the lowest levels of presence of a virus. Using technology of the McDonnell Genome Institute, this test will detect viruses using genome sequencing. The researchers from the university will make this technology available publicly to clinics around the world.

Before the test gets deployed though it will need to go through extensive testing with the help of clinical trials. The test has already proven to be very effective as far as laboratory tests are concerned. If it can prove to be just as effective in the real world too then it may just mark a huge breakthrough while will let doctors pin-point diseases that are hard to diagnose.

Viruses can be hard to detect because of their small size and the fact that they don’t leave any tell-tale signs like bacteria or other microbes. These viruses are usually tested using expensive individual kits. To discover a virus which causes an illness, a number of tests may be required at times.

And even then some viral illnesses are undetected. But this new test will be able to eliminate these undiagnosed cases almost completely.

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