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FELUDA paper-strip test
Why is it in News?
- Health ministry might soon roll out the FELUDA paper-strip test for diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2.
Details:
- It is developed by Delhi based CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology.
- It showed 95% sensitivity (100% sensitivity means all positive samples return positive results).
- It also showed 98% specificity (100% specificity means all negative samples return negative results).
- Either saliva or blood is taken as a sample though saliva is preferred for testing.
- This is nucleic acid test and not a protein-based test.