New crown convenient detection device: 90 minutes out of the results with high accuracy
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Last Update: 2020-12-03
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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LONDON, Sept. 18 (Xinhua Zhang Jiawei) - A small new coronavirus detection device developed by a team led by researchers at Imperial College has been developed that can be tested within 90 minutes without laboratory facilities and has shown high accuracy in actual testing.
, this detection device is small, smaller than ordinary mobile phones, can be used directly at the bedside. When tested, people simply put the sample of the nasal swab collected into the device, which analyzes the sample for the presence of new coronavirus genetic material, and the results can be produced within 90 minutes. In contrast, traditional laboratory tests produce results within 24 hours.
, 386 health care workers and patients in the UK have tried the device. The results show that the device is highly accurate, sensitive to 94% and 100% specific. This means that there are very few false negative results and no false positive results.
results have been published in the British academic journal The Lancet Microbiology. One of the study's authors, Professor Graham Cook of Imperial College, said the trial results showed that the small device's test results were as accurate as lying in the lab.
is currently being trialed at eight hospitals in London and will be rolled out across the UK, the company said in a statement. The British government recently ordered 5.8 million such devices.
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