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OMISURE

January 7 , 2022 912 days 1044 0
  • The Indian Council of Medical Research recently approved ‘OMISURE’.
  • Omisure is a RT – PCR kit.
  • It is used to detect Omicron, a COVID-19 variant.
  • The kit was designed and developed by a US-based company Thermo Fisher.
  • It was manufactured by Tata.
  • The kit uses S Gene Target Failure to detect Omicron.
  • It is currently the only kit in India to use this method to detect Omicron.

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