Cepheid has introduced the GeneXpert ® 16-Site System at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. The latest addition to Cepheid's GeneXpert ® family of real-time PCR devices ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) continues to emphasise the critically important role testing plays in curbing the rampaging spread of the pandemic coronavirus (COVID-19). It describes testing as a ...

The Ministry of Health has approved the use of GeneXpert, a tuberculosis test, for Covid-19 screening. It is a real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test that has been used in Vietnam since ...

For much of last year, the coronavirus crept, undetected, across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Test samples had to be sent more than 1,500 kilometres from remote hospitals to the capital ...

A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect tuberculosis. The deadly lung disease infects around 90,000 people in the ...

The government has started using tuberculosis diagnosis machine -- GeneXpert -- to detect Covid-19, in a desperate attempt to ease the strain on its testing facilities with limited number of RT-PCR ...

The Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) started using tuberculosis machine - GeneXpert - for quicker diagnosis of coronavirus disease (Covid) on Wednesday. The lab with ...

THE Japanese government has donated a GeneXpert (PCR) machine to assist Nyanga District Hospital to easily diagnose malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19 viruses. Speaking during the handover of the ...