by Lucy Burns | May 22, 2022 | blog
Legionnaires’ disease is a severe pneumonia typically caused by inhalation of aerosolized water containing Legionella bacteria. These bacteria are transmitted directly from the environment, such as water from showers, hot tubs, water misters, and cooling towers that...
by Lucy Burns | May 22, 2022 | blog
Mycobacterium bacteria have caused outbreaks of hypersensitivity pneumonia due to exposure of aerosols from the infected metalworking fluids. Environmental opportunistic mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium avium, M. terrae, and the new species M. immunogenum,...
by Lucy Burns | Apr 13, 2020 | blog
What is the principle of PCR? PCR, short for Polymerase Chain Reaction, is an artificial DNA synthesis which can produce many copies of DNA fragments from a small amount of DNA molecules. This process makes DNA detectable by various testing methods. As a result, a...
by Lucy Burns | Apr 8, 2020 | blog
DNA detection has been used to detect pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses with significant advantages such as increased sensitivity, accuracy, and testing time. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) has become the most important tool for DNA-based pathogen detection....
by Lucy Burns | Apr 1, 2020 | blog
According to Wikipedia, a chain reaction is a sequence of reactions where a reactive product or by-product causes additional reactions to take place. In a chain reaction, positive feedback leads to a self-amplifying chain of events. A nuclear chain reaction was...
by Lucy Burns | Mar 25, 2020 | blog
Coronavirus COVID-19 is highly contagious and has caused a global pandemic. Early detection plays an important role in disease diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. RT-PCR is the most popular test to directly detect this virus. Recently, this test has been developed...
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