The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, through its Diagnostic Advisory Committee (DAC), has recommended the ...

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Africa CDC has recommended the first locally manufactured real-time polymerase chain reaction ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention through its Diagnostic Advisory Committee (DAC) has recommended the first locally manufactured Real-Time PCR test for mpox ...

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial diseases.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has approved the first locally manufactured mpox test in Morocco, marking a pivotal development in Africa's fight against the virus.

Testing for mpox, which has killed more than 1,000 people on the continent in 2024, is insufficient. Read more at ...

Advisory Committee has endorsed first ever locally made Monkey Pox (Mpox) test from Morocco in efforts to boost Africa's health self-reliance and outbreak response.

The CDC said in a statement posted on X on Thursday that it has recommended what it described as the first locally produced ...

and watch in real time as the results are displayed. A previous version of this article referred to these at-home tests as PCR tests. This article was updated 11/12/2024 to note that these are ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it has listed two additional mpox in-vitro diagnostic tests for emergency use ...